I've got a local jboss setup with 2 top level deployments

• myEar.ear
  META-INF/jboss-ejb-client.xml
  myEJB.jar
• myWar.war
  WEB-INF/jboss-ejb-client.xml

A thirth EJB (serviceEJB) is running on a remote service. When I try to lookup my remote service from my war is is pickup nice and smooth but I can't lookup the serviceEJB from the ear (myEar). Resulting in a 'No EJB receiver available for handling [appName:referentie-component-ear,modulename:referentie-component-ejb,distinctname:]

When starting my local jboss setup the jboss-ejb-client.xml the remote connection is setup.
15:25:23,758 INFO [org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionEJBReceiver] (MSC service thread 1-1) Successful version handshake completed for receiver context EJBReceiverContext

{clientContext=org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext@6f4370c1, receiver=Remoting connection EJB receiver [connection=Remoting connection <1d6c023d>,channel=jboss.ejb,nodename=dmpMO:server-dmp-mo]}

on channel Channel ID baa352ab (outbound) of Remoting connection 4a43dc54 to DMP-MO-FSC2/161.89.55.159:4447

But when my webapp calls MyEJB which calls the ServiceEJB 'No EJB receiver available' error. The remote connection is setup according: https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/EJB+invocations+from+a+remote+server+instance

It looks like only one (the war) top level deployment can setup a remote connection.