I've done the (new InitialContext().lookup("beanName/local") and that works all fine and dandy. I'd really PREFER to use the @EJB(name="beanName/local") private Bean beanName; instead, but its not working. Note: I'm using 4.0.4GA. I had applied some EJB 3.0 patch a long time ago and forgot which one so I just tried with what seems to be the latest possible version for my version of JBoss -- I applied the jboss-ejb-3.0-RC9-fd.zip using the Ant install.xml script. I use Java 5. Am I doing something wrong? I basically removed the InitialContext code and use the @EJB instead and that's the only change so I know its not any deployment, etc type of error. Thanks for any insight. I think it seems like the @EJB injection is really useful and can simplify the testing process. Maybe I'm wrong since I can't even get that working yet... but I'd like to potentially simplify some unit tests and my mock ejb containers.... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046690#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...