"alesj" wrote : I'm not asking about this - I know it shouldn't be MC aware. | There are as many lookups as there is tries to resolve dependency on that JNDI component. | But that shouldn't be a problem, right? Except that it is a problem, because each lookup results in a new SFSB. Which eats up precious resources. If a lot of EJBs depend on this entry than the SFSB cache will be quickly saturated. "alesj" wrote : I don't get this one. getEntry("HAPartion") returns an entry from the JNDI plugin instead of the basic registry. Thus problems (fixed with the "jndi:" prefix). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4080799#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...