Hi
In the ejb 3.0 specification on page 47 (3.4.5.2 Stateless Session Beans) you can find
The equals method always returns true when used to compare references to the same business interface type of the same session bean. Session bean references to either different business interface types or different session beans will not be equal.
I hope that this helps, in the same document - somewhere upper - is they describe the equals for statefull.
Regards
Mihai
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