"waynebaylor" wrote : if you remove the stateful bean lookup does the code still generate an exception? No, it works properly. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4109689#4109689 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4109689