I hate to reanimate this post but it is exactly what I want to do. I'm running Tomcat 5.5.23 and attempting to access EJB on a 4.0.5.GA JBoss server. I have copied my jndi.properties into WEB-INF/classes and I have jbossall-client.jar in WEB-INF/lib. I have 2 cases: 1. When I have jbossall-client.jar in WEB-INF/lib in get java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/CreateException 2. When I move jbossclient-all.jar to shared/lib I get javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name UtilitiesFacadeEJB is not bound in this Context In case 1 its clear it doesn't find the jbossall-client.jar, why would that be? In case 2 it does find the required JBoss classes but is unable to locate the EJB. It doesn't appear to be finding jndi.properties. I tried to pass the -nonaming into the tomcat startup.sh script but my Tomcat instance doesn't appear to start when I do. I have spend all day searching forums and google, trying everything I find with no luck. Can somebody point me in the proper direction? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4095780#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...