JNDI lookup of BeanManager in weblogic 12c fails

Hello
I'm using Weblogic 12.1.1(patched one) and trying to do a JNDI lookup of the BeanManager
Following code fails.

try
            {
              bm = (BeanManager) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/BeanManager");
            }
         catch (NamingException e) {
             log.error("JNDI lookup failed "+e);
         }
in
JNDI lookup failed javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: While trying to look up comp/BeanManager in /app/ejb/ejbs.jar/#ABeanEJB.; remaining name 'comp/BeanManager'

Injecting it however works fine. If I look in the JNDI tree from the console it's not displayed.