Hi all,
I have recently attempted to connect to a stateful session bean on my jboss server that I created from the jboss tutorial.
Their client I used (only with package name changes) gives me the following error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.naming.Reference
at testEjb3.Client.main(Client.java:17)

code for line 16-17:
InitialContext ctx = new javax.naming.InitialContext();
ShoppingCart cart = (ShoppingCart)ctx.lookup(ShoppingCart.class.getName());


I use the eclipse jboss ide and jboss version 4.0.2

I'm sure this is a classpath error. I was wondering if any one else had tried this example and what they put in their classpath.

This happens to me too. Does this work for anyone?

It seems there is a bug with JBoss 4.0.2. I deployed the same example ear file to version 4.0 and 4.0.2 but version 4.0.2 failed. When I lookuped the home of a bean deployed from a web servlet using InitialContext JBoss Server 4.0.2 always appended additional "Home" to the end of bound JNDI subcontext, which caused ClassCastException. The funny thing is, if you use stand-alone client there are no such exception at all.

Same problem here:

java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.naming.Reference
at org.jboss.ejb3.LocalProxy.readObject(LocalProxy.java:50)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:919)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1813)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1713)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1299)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1912)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1836)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1713)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1299)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:339)
at java.rmi.MarshalledObject.get(MarshalledObject.java:135)
at org.jnp.interfaces.MarshalledValuePair.get(MarshalledValuePair.java:57)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:637)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:572)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
at xxx.JNDITest.testJNDI(JNDITest.java:15)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:478)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:344)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

I found the same problem. As default, Session Bean is binding by ClassNameBean/local or ClassNameBean/remote. But if the aplliaction is deployed in .ear file then its binding by ear_name_file/Class_Name_bean/remote. example if our ear file is ojolali.ear and the Session Class name is BasoBean.class then its bind as ojolali/BasoBean/remote. but if its deploy in jar then to get the bean remote from JNDI is ; InitialContext ctx = new javax.naming.InitialContext(); ShoppingCart cart = (ShoppingCart)ctx.lookup(ShoppingCart.class.getName()+"/remote");