Hello All, I have an ejb-jar.xml file in my archive which defines a session bean as follows <session> <description>Models User Management</description> <ejb-name>UserManagerBean</ejb-name> <home>freeforums.user.UserManagerHome</home> <remote>freeforums.user.UserManager</remote> <ejb-class>freeforums.user.UserManagerBean</ejb-class> <session-type>Stateless</session-type> <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type> <ejb-ref> <ejb-ref-name>ejb/User</ejb-ref-name> <ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type> <home>freeforums.user.UserHome</home> <remote>freeforums.user.User</remote> <ejb-link>UserBean</ejb-link> </ejb-ref> <ejb-ref> <ejb-ref-name>ejb/ForumUser</ejb-ref-name> <ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type> <home>freeforums.user.ForumUserHome</home> <remote>freeforums.user.ForumUser</remote> <ejb-link>ForumUserBean</ejb-link> </ejb-ref> </session> The Two entity beans it refers are defined as follows <entity> <display-name>User</display-name> <ejb-name>UserBean</ejb-name> <home>freeforums.user.UserHome</home> <remote>freeforums.user.User</remote> <ejb-class>freeforums.user.UserBean</ejb-class> <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type> <prim-key-class>java.lang.String</prim-key-class> <reentrant>False</reentrant> <cmp-field> <field-name>password</field-name> </cmp-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>superUser</field-name> </cmp-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>userName</field-name> </cmp-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>realName</field-name> </cmp-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>emailAddress</field-name> </cmp-field> <primkey-field>userName</primkey-field> </entity> And <entity> <display-name>ForumUser</display-name> <ejb-name>ForumUserBean</ejb-name> <home>freeforums.user.ForumUserHome</home> <remote>freeforums.user.ForumUser</remote> <ejb-class>freeforums.user.ForumUserBean</ejb-class> <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type> <prim-key-class>freeforums.user.ForumUserPK</prim-key-class> <reentrant>False</reentrant> <cmp-field> <field-name>key</field-name> </cmp-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>administrator</field-name> </cmp-field> <primkey-field>key</primkey-field> </entity> Can some one tell me why I would not be able to make an object of my session bean from another class file, this class file is a Java Bean which supports my JSP file and belongs to the same package as these EJBs. Thank you so much for your time Devraj _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user