I am wondering if local interfaces are designed to work with just ejb -> ejb communication or will they still work locally with a dao/class -> ejb communication? As long as the class/dao is still on the same server as the ejb, will it still be treated as a local call?

Thanks

Nic

The EJB2Final spec says
"Session and entity beans may have local clients. A local client is a client that is collocated in the same
JVM with the session or entity bean that provides the local client view and which may be tightly coupled
to the bean. A local client of a session bean or an entity bean may be another enterprise bean (a session
bean, entity bean, or message-driven bean)."

This obviously means the you can use DAO/Classes to access the Beans Local Interfaces.

Hope this helps.