What's the jndiname that you are passing to the public Object getFacadeService(String jndiName) method. Going by the JNDI tree contents that you posted earlier, you should either pass java:/comp/env/ejb/ServiceRequestFacade to lookup from the java: namespace or webapp/ServiceRequestFacade/local to lookup from the global JNDI namespace View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047758#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...