"jaikiran" wrote : | It depends on where you are doing the lookup using the InitialContext. Is this being done in the same bean where the @Resource is defined? In which case, this should work. However, if you are doing the lookup in some other component of your application, then this wont work. | The lookup using InitialContext is located inside the bean with the @Resource annotation. Exactly the same location as the lookup with SessionContext. I also expect it to work, but it does not. :-( View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129432#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...