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Simple (?) questions about context lookups

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:17:17 PST

When using JNDI lookups like [b](new InitialContext()).lookup("java:/comp/env/jdbc/datasource")[/b], does the name refer to a global object or is to something within the bean's descriptor (since that is where I have seen the value specified)?

In other words, if I deploy 2 instances of the same bean in different EARs and with their own deployment descriptor settings, does each instance get the value from its own descriptor?

And for bonus points (:-), can you specify it once only for all instances [just curious, that's not what I want to do]?

And is the new EJBContext.lookup() method different in this regard?

thanks!
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