>A typical usage of custom resource is to emulate <env-entry> for more complex data types
Perfect, that answers my question about env-entry arrays--which you say aren't supported via @Resources, but I could use a custom resource instead.
Are custom resources a more expensive JNDI lookup than an env-entry?
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