When I deploy a bean with a local interface in a separate
jar from the session bean that uses it, I get the following
error in jboss when my client tries to access the session bean:

23:00:08,611 ERROR [LogInterceptor] EJBException, causedBy:
javax.naming.NamingException: Could not dereference object [Root exception is java.lang.NullPointerException]
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.resolveLink(NamingContext.java:934)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:577)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:606)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:471)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
at com.titan.travelagent.TravelAgentBean.listCabins(TravelAgentBean.java:26)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)


Hovever, if I combine the two beans in the same jar, it works.

Is there a requirement that beans with local interfaces be in
the same jar as other beans that use them, or is this a bug?

P.S. I'm using the code in section 5.3 of the JBoss workbook
used with O'reilly's Enterprise Java Beans 3rd Ed.

-Thanx