[JBoss-user] Should I cache ejbRefs?

[Brian McSweeney]

Hi all,   my app is fronended with struts, using local beans. The local beans use stateless session facades as a frontend.   In a book discussing struts there is a chapter on using entity beans which describes how it is a good idea to cache the ejb refs in application scope. The idea is, that it takes alot of time to create the JNDI initial context etc.   They suggest using a ServletContextListener to cache the ejb refs to the stateless session beans once the application starts up.   Anyone have any opinions on this?   cheers, Brian