Hello, I'm still interested in this problem. So could me at least somebody say why it works for JBoss-4.0.3SP1 but not for the later versions? The problem is if I have a remote ejb client and a local webapp and I would set the Payload key to MARSHALLED the it would be crash for the webapp. Otherwise if I would set it to AS_IS then my metadata would be ignored for the remote client. Regards, Thomas Termin View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979374#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...