The EJB3 spec eliminated the "Home" interfaces for obtaining a reference to a bean's proxy invoker. The reason that the Remote and Local interfaces are required is because clients of an EJB3 Bean obtain a reference to (and invoke methods on) this proxy object, generated by the container, which implements the Remote or Local interface as configured. The actual implementation instances reside on the server, and also implement the Local/Remote interfaces. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3978620#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...