This is really driving me insane - and it looks like many other people have similar problems.

I created an entity bean and a servlet to use it. The servlet works perfectly, binding the bean home through java:enc/ejb and then creating, using, and deleting the beans.

When I try to bind the same bean home from an application, no matter what I do I get:

[java] java.lang.Class CastException
[java] at com.sun.corba.se.internal.javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:293)
[java] at javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:134)
[java] at com.xerox.SIToolkitDomain.samples.DynamicService.DynamicPersistentService.initialize(DynamicPersistentService.java:284)
[java] at com.xerox.SIToolkitDomain.samples.DynamicService.DynamicPersistentService.setup(DynamicPersistentService.java:204)
[java] at com.xerox.SIToolkitDomain.samples.DynamicService.StartListener$1.run(StartListener.java:41)
[java] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

This happens whether I have the a jboss.xml that gives the beans explicit names, or if I have no jboss.xml and accept the default jndi names. I can get the naming context and use it to list the binding of the home (which is always bound to a $Proxy - e.g.:

[java] [DynamicPersistentService]: Name PersistentQueueEntryRecordHome bound to class $Proxy48

This code worked perfectly in JBoss 2.4.4. What has gone wrong?

Please help, I have looked through 100's of messages on the forums and looked through the documentation for hours.

Bruce Lyon