question about multiple instances of same ejb..

[Bob Walker Jr]

Can we deploy the same enterprise bean multiple times in a container?
Like we have in servlets, we can deploy the same servlet class with different servlet-names. Can we do it with EJBs?

[Jianming Wang]

Certainly you can.

[Bob Simpson]

Yes you can. With different JNDI names.

[Rangarajan Suresh]

But be careful, when you try to use isIdentical on these multiple deployments.
Find Excerpt from EJB2 spec below:

6.9.2 Stateless session beans
All session objects of the same stateless session bean within the same home have the same object iden-tity,
which is assigned by the container. If a stateless session bean is deployed multiple times (each
deployment results in the creation of a distinct home), session objects from different homes will have a
different identity.
The isIdentical(EJBObject otherEJBObject) and isIdentical(EJBLocalOb-ject
otherEJBLocalObject) methods always returns true when used to compare object refer-ences
of two session objects of the same stateless session bean.