Stateless session beans are always special (because they *tataaa* contain no state). Since CDI beans almost always contain some state info, the 'else' part of the paragraph -> return false; will always be taken. But always returning false for all CDI beans also doesn't sound quite right to me... There is no special paragraph about equals on Stateful session beans or EMPs in the EJB spec, isn't? LieGrue, strub --- On Wed, 3/16/11, Adam Bien <abien(a)adam-bien.com&gt; wrote: From: Adam Bien <abien(a)adam-bien.com&gt; Subject: Re: [cdi-dev] calling 'equals' on a proxy? To: "Peter Muir" <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Mark Struberg" <struberg(a)yahoo.de&gt; Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 11:51 PM @Mark -> please file the issue. On 17.03.2011, at 00:02, Peter Muir wrote: Adam or mark, can you file a CDI issue to track this? --Pete Muirhttp://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete On 16 Mar 2011, at 19:06, Adam Bien <abien(a)adam-bien.com&gt; wrote: Equals behavior is similarly specificied in the EJB 3.1 spec. Probably we could borrow something: "The equals method always returns true when used to compare references to the same business inter- face type of the same stateless session bean. The equals method always returns true when used to com- pare references to the no-interface view of the same stateless session bean. Stateless session bean references to either different business interface types or between an interface type and a no-interface view or to different session beans will not be equal." EJB 3.1, Page 54 greetings!, adam On 14.03.2011, at 12:52, Pete Muir wrote: Stuart, you had this one worked out right? I believe the spec says the behaviour is unspecified. On 7 Mar 2011, at 15:52, Mark Struberg wrote: Hi Pete, others! Do you remember our discussion about what should happen if equals() gets called on a proxy? Should it route to the equals method of the currently proxied instance? LieGrue, strub _______________________________________________ cdi-dev mailing list cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev _______________________________________________ cdi-dev mailing list cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev Consultant, Author, Speaker, Java Champion Weblog: blog.adam-bien.com press: press.adam-bien.com eMail: abien(a)adam-bien.com twitter: twitter.com/adambien Mobile: 0049(0)170 280 3144 Author: 7 (Java SE/EE, SOA) Books, about 100 articles Consultant, Author, Speaker, Java Champion Weblog: blog.adam-bien.com press: press.adam-bien.com eMail: abien(a)adam-bien.com twitter: twitter.com/adambien Mobile: 0049(0)170 280 3144 Author: 7 (Java SE/EE, SOA) Books, about 100 articles