Your web.xml file is declared as using the
Servlet 2.2 DTD.
ejb-local-ref was introduced with Servlet 2.3
What version of the Servlet spec does this Oracle Application Server support?
You can answer that question with this snippet of
JSP:
If it is 2.3, you can change the DTD Definition of your web.xml file to:
If it is 2.2, then you can't use ejb-local-ref with this server.