chetan,<br /><br />thanks for the reply. I took the logkit.jar from the weblogic directory (C:\bea92mp3\weblogic92\server\lib\logkit) and had to place it in the jboss server lib directory (C:\Adobe\LiveCycle8.2\jboss\server\all\lib) which is where my client app is running. even though i have weblogic installed locally, I am trying to connect to a remote solaris box running weblogic - this is our adobe livecycle es server. Now I get the following error. Is there something else I need to do in order to get my client app to make a remote ejb call? I know that I am missing something big here, I just have no idea what it is.<br /><br />also, I am bit reluctant to use the soap as we are running a strictly Java environment, and I don't want to have to deal with the web service proxy classes (and the overhead, performance hit, with soap).<br /><br />thanks again<br /><br />regards,<br />jp<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] com.adobe.livecycle.formsservice.exception.RenderFormException: ALC-DSC-031-000: com.adobe.idp.dsc.net.DSCNamingException: Remote EJBObject lookup failed for ejb/Invocation provider<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.livecycle.formsservice.client.FormsServiceClient.renderHTMLForm(FormsServiceClient.java:142)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.livecycle.forms.RenderHTMLForms.doPost(RenderHTMLForms.java:32)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve.invoke(CustomPrincipalValve.java:39)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:159)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:59)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:112)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] Caused by: ALC-DSC-031-000: com.adobe.idp.dsc.net.DSCNamingException: Remote EJBObject lookup failed for ejb/Invocation provider<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.initialise(EjbMessageDispatcher.java:97)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.doSend(EjbMessageDispatcher.java:130)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.base.AbstractMessageDispatcher.send(AbstractMessageDispatcher.java:57)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClient.invoke(ServiceClient.java:208)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.livecycle.formsservice.client.FormsServiceClient.invokeRequest(FormsServiceClient.java:429)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,765 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.livecycle.formsservice.client.FormsServiceClient.renderHTMLForm(FormsServiceClient.java:125)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] ... 22 more<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] Caused by: javax.naming.InvalidNameException: Couldn't resolve initial reference: NameService [Root exception is org.omg.CORBA.ORBPackage.InvalidName]<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.Utils.wrapNamingException(Utils.java:52)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.ORBHelper.getORBReferenceWithRetry(ORBHelper.java:574)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.ORBHelper.getORBReference(ORBHelper.java:534)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.InitialContextFactoryImpl.getInitialContext(InitialContextFactoryImpl.java:85)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.InitialContextFactoryImpl.getInitialContext(InitialContextFactoryImpl.java:31)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory.getInitialContext(WLInitialContextFactory.java:41)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:247)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.initJndiContext(EjbMessageDispatcher.java:213)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.getJndiContext(EjbMessageDispatcher.java:226)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.initialise(EjbMessageDispatcher.java:87)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] ... 27 more<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] Caused by: org.omg.CORBA.ORBPackage.InvalidName<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jacorb.orb.ORB.resolve_initial_references(Unknown Source)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.ORBHelper.getORBReferenceWithRetry(ORBHelper.java:563)<br />2008-08-28 10:26:07,780 INFO [STDOUT] ... 38 more