What will hashCode return in method of SLSB?

[alwyn]

Hi,

I have MDB's making calls on methods of a SLSB. In the method I print out the hashCode of the object. For some
reason I only see 1 ejbCreate for the SLSB and the same hashCode for all calls.

Is this hashCode for the home object?
Can I rest assure that multiple SLSB's actually do exist even though it looks like there is only 1?

[adrian.brock]

SLSBs are pooled.

The system creates as many as it needs to process
requests.
In your case, one bean was probably enough to process
all requests.

Regards,
Adrian