Creating an ebj3 client inside an eclipse plugin

[robert.e.morgan]

Hi everyone,
i'm trying to build an eclipse plugin to act as a client to my ejb3 server application. i have used the code from the applet example to successfully connect to the server from a standalone application, however when trying to use that same code inside a basic eclipse plugin i get a class not found exception. does anyone have a tutorial or an example that i could follow on how to connect to the server from inside an eclipse plugin.

the code that i'm using to connec is:
Client project (inside my plugin code):

 try {
 Context context = new InitialContext();
 System.out.println("This is the test "+HelloWorld.class.getName());
 HelloWorld hw = (HelloWorld) context.lookup(HelloWorld.class.getName());

 hw.sayHello();

 } catch (Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 }

Server Project:
helloWorld.java

package hello;

import javax.ejb.Remote;

@Remote
public interface HelloWorld {
 public void sayHello();
}

helloWorldBean.java

package hello;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;


public @Stateless class HelloWorldBean implements HelloWorld {
 public void sayHello() {
 System.out.println("Hello EJB3 World !!!! ");
 }
}

the above client code placed inside a simple main works exactly as i want but fails when placed inside the plugin. I was told that this could be caused by the thread classloader. i'm still learning about ejb3 and eclipse plugins so any help that you could provide or links to examples/tutorials would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance
Robert