Consider this:

class Base

{ ... } @Stateless @LocalBean class Bean extends Base implements Blah {.. }

This bean exposes a no-interface view. When a client accesses this no-interface view reference:

Object nointerfaceView = ctx.lookup("Bean/no-interface");

The returned instead should be castable to Base, Blah and Bean. Currently it's only castable to the bean class type (i.e. Bean)