Thanks, I am thinking of having a Config Mgr as singleton. But not sure where to put the logic of invoking this ConfigMgr (from ejbCreate or setSessionContext()) "jaikiran" wrote : Have a singleton utility class which will read the file once when it is instantiated. Invoke this singleton utility class from your EJB whenever you want the values for your properties View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3973294#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...