Henry, it's an annoying oversight that @EJB doesn't work, but you can add something like this in the

converter constructor:

private YourEjbClass ejb;

public YourConverter() {

        if (ejb == null) {

            try {

                ctx = new InitialContext();

                ejb = (YourEjbClass) ctx.lookup("java:global/com.myproject_MyProject_war_1.0.0/YourEjbClass");

            } catch (Exception e) { // poor example of exception handling!

                Log.log(e.getMessage());

            }

        }

    }

The glassfish app server outputs the portable jndi names in the server log at startup time for all ejbs, hopefully similar

functionality exists for other app servers.

I use Myfaces CODI http://myfaces.apache.org/extensions/cdi/ which allows me to @Inject ejbs into converter

classes that are annotated with the @Advanced annotation (I think this may depend on whether you're using

OpenWebBeans or Weld as the CDI implementation, as a glassfish user I use Weld and require @Advanced).

Regards,

Brendan.