Howdy, yes another good question
It's just up to the Container to provide a bean with a reference to its own Home. The Home isn't tied to the *Client*, it's tied to the *Deployment*, so when a bean type (say, Customer bean) is deployed, a Home object (or something that *represents* a Home object... it's really up to the Container to implement it any way the vendor chooses, as long as it follows the behavior of the spec), is created so that any bean of that type that's created, whether in response to a client request or because the Container is pre-loading a pool, can have a reference to its Home... which is really the ONE and only ONE Home for all beans of that specific bean type (Customer, Cart, etc.).
So the Container doesn't need to wait until there is a Client... a Home is guaranteed to exist first, before any bean instances of that particular type are instantiated.
I hope I was answering the right question
cheers,
Kathy
