It's been a while... Thanks for your solution! In the meantime I got it working with my code from above but yours is working as well. My mistake was that I used a wrong type of project within Eclipse which was not able to access the app-server and its EJBs. So, it's not about wrong code but my unhandiness ;) Thanks anyway!
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