Sorry, I am majorly confused. I don't know why a EJB would be described as a session bean in a WAR file, and it would be an Entity bean in the EJB deployment descriptor. I would appreciate help in understanding this. Thanks! In the EJB descriptor file, Inventory bean is described as an entity Bean. In the WAR descriptor file, Inventory bean is described as a session bean. I pulled the following excepts from the descriptor file for Duke's pet store: In EJB file: - <entity> <description>no description</description> <display-name>TheInventory</display-name> <ejb-name>TheInventory</ejb-name> <home>com.sun.estore.inventory.ejb.InventoryHome</home> <remote>com.sun.estore.inventory.ejb.Inventory</remote> <ejb-class>com.sun.estore.inventory.ejb.InventoryEJB</ejb-class> <persistence-type>Bean</persistence-type> <prim-key-class>java.lang.String</prim-key-class> <reentrant>False</reentrant> - <resource-ref> <description>description</description> <res-ref-name>jdbc/InventoryDataSource</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref> </entity> In WAR file: - <ejb-ref> <ejb-ref-name>ejb/inventory</ejb-ref-name> <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type> <home>com.sun.estore.inventory.ejb.InventoryHome</home> <remote>com.sun.estore.inventory.ejb.Inventory</remote> </ejb-ref> Phillip Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alcoa eCommerce https://www.ALCOADIRECT.COM 826B Two Allegheny Center Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (412) 553-4900 (phone) (412) 553-2484 (fax) =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
