hello, this is the the behavior I've observed in my application and that I would like to fix: say, two users A and B are logged into the system. if I shutdown the server while they are logged, either by using admin.jar -shutdown or ctrl-c, the session beans associated with each user session are passivated without problems. if I restart the server again, and user A logs in again, then the previous two passivated session beans are activated, again without problems, and a new session bean for user A is created. so I have then three session beans, but two of them associated with user A (although only one of them does work). so the passivated session bean associated with user A is activated but it's not reused. instead a new session bean is created for user A. my question is: what do I need to do so that the passivated session bean is reused after activation? thanx. luis