In principle, in EJB 3.0, you can access a bean from another bean by looking it up in the interface (local or remote). Here are two solutions for doing that:

1. Through the JNDI, you still have the portability:

   //get the default JNDI initial contextContext ctx=new InitialContext();//get the bussiness interfaceObject obj=ctx.lookup(BusinessInterface.class.getName());//convert objBusinessInterface bi=(BusinessInterface)obj;

2. Through the @EJB annotiation:

   @EJB BusinessInterface bi;   //cooool !