This element is used to change the way remote ejbs are treated when colocated on the same VM. In that case you might want to use "pass by reference"- instead of "pass by value"-semantics to prevent unnecessary copying of attributes.
Of course apps that depend on this feature are not portable to other containers that do not support this behaviour as well. Thus you should think twice before using it.
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