Quote Originally Posted by dejanp View Post
Classloading issues with local ejbs are an old, long and sad story. What it boils down to is that you have 2 classloaders for your local interface and you cannot assign instance created in one classloader to a variable in other classloader. (Classes in different classloaders can never be the same class, no matter if they have the same qname or not - that's exactly why we have different classloaders)

Usually there is an option in your app server to turn off the local interface pass-by-ref optimization and use pass-by-value. (Let's ignore the fact that app server is fully aware of all the classloaders it created and could do this on it's own, if needed)
Good catch! Would you know how to switch to "pass-by-value" on JBoss 4.x?