you will also need a jboss-web.xml to map "ejb/UserBean" to the global JNDI name for com.website.Statefull.UserBeanLocal. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4103427#4103427 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4103427