Dear George,
I did not have any enable-call-by-reference tag at all (this example ships with WLS). I tried to add the tag, but then could not run the build script - so no new ejb_basic_containerManaged.jar in the ../myserver directory. So then I just tried to run WLS's build script on their original files, which of course had an error
I am very, very new to this. I appreciate your input, looks like I need to spend more time studying the basics - Thanks