Thanks for the response Adrian. Here are the contents of HelloWorld.jar:

META-INF/
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
com/
com/mastertech/
com/mastertech/sample/
com/mastertech/sample/HelloWorld.class
com/mastertech/sample/HelloWorldBean.class
com/mastertech/sample/HelloWorldHome.class
META-INF/ejb-jar.xml

As you can see there is no jboss.xml but going by the tutorial I was following this is not necessary for such a simple example. Here is ejb-jar.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ejb-jar>
JBOSS Hello World Wpplication
<display-name>Hello World EJB</display-name>
<enterprise-beans>

<ejb-name>Hello</ejb-name>
com.mastertech.sample.HelloWorldHome
com.mastertech.sample.HelloWorld
<ejb-class>com.mastertech.sample.HelloWorldBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type>

</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>

Here is the application client code:
Note I have not imported the Remote and Home interface as the client is in the same package as the EJB. Not very realistic I know but this was supposed to be a quick sample to get started!

package com.mastertech.sample;

/** application client **/

import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import java.util.Hashtable;

public class HelloWorldClient{
public static void main(String [] args){
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "LOCALHOST:1099");
env.put("java.naming.factoy.url.pkgs", "org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");
try{
Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);
Object obj = ctx.lookup("HelloWorld");
HelloWorldHome home = (HelloWorldHome)
javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj, HelloWorldHome.class);
HelloWorld helloWorld = home.create();
System.out.println(helloWorld.sayHello());
helloWorld.remove();
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Exception: "+ e.getMessage());
}
}
}

I also took Sun’s j2ee.jar out of the classpath and left in jboss-j2ee.jar in it. Unfortunately I am still getting the same error.

Can anyone spot any mistakes In the above code?

Andrew

Peter,

The reason there is no HelloWorldClient in the jar is that it is not part of the EJB. It is a stand-alone application client, which I am trying to run directly from the command line.
Thanks for the advice though. Maybe I should try packaging the whole lot in an EAR file.

Andrew