Hi,

We are running into the problem of EJB's requiring environmental configuration such as ports remote hosts etc. The obvious solution seems to be to use the env-entry in ejb-jar.xml or to use a properties file inside the jar file but this means that to reconfigure the bean you must rebuild or at least manipulate the jar file. I don't want to go down this road really because I need to deploy the same bean in a lot of places with different config and it will become tiresome...

I would have thought that there would be a way for the container to provide configuration to the bean, specifically to over-ride the ejb-jar.xml or resolve names provided in there. It can be done for Datasources but this doesn't seem to be the case for name, value pair type resources like env-entry in ejb-jar.xml.

One solution is to use system properties provided on the command line eg -Dx.y.z=blah referenced in the Bean code but this doesn't seem very nice.

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.