We're planning to build a Servlet/JSP application(using Tomcat). We might also use EJB's if required (using JBoss). What's the best portable J2EE way to call EJB's on JBoss from a servlet in Tomcat? We have Tomcat 3.2.3. I understand this should be done by acquiring an initial context and doing a lookup for the EJB. But does Tomcat support the initial context stuff? Also, I want to know how we should configure the ejb-ref/ejb-local-ref elements in web.xml(Are these mandatory?) Thanks for your help. ----------------------------------------------------------- Velmurugan Periasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aegis.net Personal Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/velmurugan_p -----------------------------------------------------------