EJB can be accessed by InitialContext but bot @EJB

[Ally Cavs]

Hi Guys

Im using JBoss 6. Ive a ear file which is made up of a:

WAR
EJB JAR (Message Driven Beans)
and in lib folder:
a number of custom jars some of which have annotated beans

All the annotated beans can be access for example by

new javax.naming.InitialContext().lookup("java:global/MyEarFile-1.0.0/MyWarFile-1.0.0/MyEJBImpl")

but in my MDB classes if i try

 @EJB
 private MyEJBIint MyEJBInt;

is always null

//interface annotated with
@Remote
public interface MyEJBIint

//impl annotated with
@Stateless
public class MyEJBImplimplements MyEJBIint {

What can the issue be?
the ejb jar
has ejb-jar.xml
jboss-ejb3.xml

[Jaikiran Pai]

When/where in the code are you trying to access that injected bean instance? Can you post the NullPointerException or whatever exception stacktrace you are seeing?