The EJB spec doesn't make a distinction between those for the purposes of this requirement.
A portable application is required to use PortableRemoteObject.narrow for the 2.x/1.x Home
object regardless of whether the lookup occurs within a component running in a Java EE
server or within a client JVM.
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