NPE may exist on Deployment when StatelessLocalProxyFactory encounters no local interfaces in the Container:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Arrays$ArrayList.<init>(Arrays.java:2355)
at java.util.Arrays.asList(Arrays.java:2341)
at org.jboss.ejb3.stateless.StatelessLocalProxyFactory.getInterfaces(StatelessLocalProxyFactory.java:62)
at org.jboss.ejb3.stateless.BaseStatelessProxyFactory.init(BaseStatelessProxyFactory.java:163)
at org.jboss.ejb3.stateless.BaseStatelessProxyFactory.start(BaseStatelessProxyFactory.java:212)
at org.jboss.ejb3.stateless.StatelessLocalProxyFactory.start(StatelessLocalProxyFactory.java:101)
at org.jboss.ejb3.ProxyDeployer.start(ProxyDeployer.java:105)
at org.jboss.ejb3.SessionContainer.start(SessionContainer.java:157)
at org.jboss.ejb3.stateless.StatelessContainer.start(StatelessContainer.java:94)