Unfortunately no. You have to reference EJB on your web.xml because Glassfish has a different implementation regarding EJB3. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4119537#4119537 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4119537