aravind kopparthi [http://community.jboss.org/people/aravindsk] created the discussion "Re: SLSB pool size is always one in jboss 6.0 CR1 using ejb 3.1" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/572468#572468 -------------------------------------------------------------- I have followed your link and thinking that i should change default configured annotation pool value to something like this in ejb-intersepters-aop.xml for Stateless Bean domain.?   <annotation expr="class(*) AND !class((a)org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.Pool)&quot;&gt;           @org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.Pool (value="StrictMaxPool", maxSize=7,   timeout=10000)       </annotation> no error but i still see that each Singleton Ejb bean is referencing it's injected SLSBean as a just bean instance not as a pool instance. calls are still synchronized. i tried to create a new SingletonBean2 where i injected same SLSBean and started calling methods on SLSBean similler to SingleTonBean and this time two SLSBeans were created and each one associated only to their SingletonBeans. what i understand from this is SLSBeans that are injected into SingletonBeans ejbs are maintained as just bean instances are than pool instances. please let me know if there is anything that i am doing wrong or expecting unusual. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/572468#572468] Start a new discussion in EJB3 at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]