It did not seem to work with j2sdkee1.2.1. The error was "ERROR! The file 
ioser12.dll could not be found.

The beta version of j2sdkee1.3 does not contain the ioser12.dll file. If 
eventually, it is included again, I wonder what will happen?

> I figured out how to make EJB clients work from jar file.  1) You must 
> include "Class-Path: /j2sdkee1.3/lib/j2ee.jar" in your manifest.  2) You 
> must copy these two files from this source...
> c:\j2sdkee1.3\config\ejb.properties
> c:\j2sdkee1.3\config\security.properties
> to this destination:
> c:\myproject\config\ejb.properties
> c:\myproject\config\security.properties
> where c:\myproject is the directory where your EJB client jar resides.
> All of this assumes you are using Sun j2ee Reference Implementation.  
The 
> two files in the \config directory are accessed by j2ee classes invoked 
by 
> the EJB client.
> That's all!
> BTW, after you get the EJB client working from jar file, it works fine 
> with Java Web Start, but you gotta "sign" all the jar files you pass to 
> Java Web Start, and you must provide JWS with signed j2ee.jar and the 
> above-mentioned \config files too.
> 
>