Hi all, I've been reading the Mastering EJBs 3.0 book lately and I'm coding along. In the 3rd chapter there's the example of a stateless session bean with a hello world Method. I've managed to deploy this to JBoss easily. But my problem lies with the client. When I try to get the remote object like this: Hello hello = (Hello)ctx.lookup("HelloBean"); I get a class cast exception like this: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext cannot be cast to gr.dvm.Hello at gr.dvm.HelloClient.main(HelloClient.java:51) I've declared my bean @Remote. What else do I need to do?

Use PortableRemoteObject.narrow(hello,Hello.class);