Yes, that's correct; sorry, I should have mentioned that I posted to the EJB3 forum. Once the WSKernelLocator issue was resolved by the removal of one of the duplicate files, I tried removing the web service annotations from my EJB, making it just a simple stateless session bean, to see if I could then do a JNDI lookup. I'm still getting a ClassCastException, though. I left the topic open in this forum, though, just in case anyone knew of any EJB-related problems from projects created using the ant tasks provided with the JBossWS Native distribution. Thanks, Tim View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4186126#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...