Actually, it can refer to another
EJB name, even relative to another JAR in your EAR. If you need to link it to an EJB in a different EAR, or who-knows-where, then you would have to do it in a vendor-specific way (in
JBoss, for example, you would leave the ejb-link blank, and include the JNDI lookup name in their JBoss-equivalent ejb-jar.xml file.
Nathaniel Stodard<br />SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD, SCDJWS, ICAD, ICSD, ICED