I have been playing around with EJB on 4.0.1SP1 and just moved to 4.0.3rc1. I added the persistance.xml in place of the hibernate.properties. I have a very simple test with one Entity and one stateless Session. Everything is running in a single VM. No changes to default configuration were made to the server=all.

The server starts up fine, creates or updates the db table behind the Entity. JNDI works to the exent I can do this:
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
Object o = ctx.lookup("java:/testDS");
System.out.print(o);

However, if I do this:
PersonSessionLocal dao = (PersonSessionLocal) ctx.lookup(PersonSessionLocal.class.getName());

I get this:

javax.naming.CommunicationException: Receive timed out [Root exception is java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Receive timed out]
org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.discoverServer(NamingContext.java:1115)
org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.checkRef(NamingContext.java:1223)


I have tried running the app outside eclipse(doesnt help), trying a fresh install of jboss (using the installer).

Does anyone have any ideas?