HI jaikiran, the spec states (p.494): anonymous wrote : | Binding of enterprise bean references. The Application Assembler may link an enterprise | bean reference to another enterprise bean in the ejb-jar file or in the same Java EE application | unit. The Application Assembler creates the link by adding the ejb-link element to the referencing | bean. The Application Assembler uses the ejb-name of the referenced bean for the | link. If there are multiple enterprise beans with the same ejb-name, the Application Assembler | uses the path name specifying the location of the ejb-jar file that contains the referenced | component. The path name is relative to the referencing ejb-jar file. The Application Assembler | appends the ejb-name of the referenced bean to the path name separated by #. This | allows multiple beans with the same name to be uniquely identified. | As far as I would comment this; I would assume that it is the application assemblers responsibility to keep binding name unique within the scope of an application. In this case an application can be an ejb-jar or an ear. Regards \sandor\ View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4179553#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...