I am trying to run the example of Ejb3 from the webinar by Marshall. The example runs correctly when my interface is @remote. It fails however with @local. I get the following exception:

java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.naming.Reference
 at org.jboss.ejb3.LocalProxy.readObject(LocalProxy.java:50)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

the line that is causing the problem is

HellowWorld hl = (HellowWorld)ctx.lookup(HellowWorld.class.getName());

where my bean def is as follows:

@Local
public interface HellowWorld {}
public class HellowWorldBean implements HellowWorld{}

thanks for the help!

Khalid