Hi, we have an EJB 2.1 system and try to integrate an EJB 3 business component (EJB 3 SLSB as facade and EJB 3 POJO's for persistence). Eeach method call to the EJB 3 SLSB creates a new bean instance. We have a 'printout' with the object identity in the PostConstruct callback method. We call the method 1000 times and each call creates it's own instance. EJB 2 SLSB are pooled correctly - so only one bean was created for the 1000 calls. The creation/lookup of the EJB 3 SLSB is made by lookup the EJB 2 view of the EJB 3 bean, means: we use a LocalHome interface for EJB 3 too (for compatibility purposes only). Any suggestions? Regards Guido View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958023#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...