Hi all,
   I am using Session Facade. I have a Stateless Session Bean for each CMP. My question is every time I want to perform any database actions Session Bean gets the initial context and does a JNDI lookup for CMP beans. Is this correct? Is there any method to avoid getting initial context and JNDI lookup every time? Can I have local interfaces for CMP beans? I have read about Service Locator design pattern. Does this help in reducing the look up time? Please let me know

Thanks in advance
Prasanna

If your slsb and CMP beans are located in side the same jar/ear file then yes you can use locale interfaces




> Hi all,
> I am using Session Facade. I have a Stateless Session Bean for each CMP. My question is every time I want to perform any database actions Session Bean gets the initial context and does a JNDI lookup for CMP beans. Is this correct? Is there any method to avoid getting initial context and JNDI lookup every time? Can I have local interfaces for CMP beans? I have read about Service Locator design pattern. Does this help in reducing the look up time? Please let me know
>
> Thanks in advance
> Prasanna

Service Locator is a good pattern for caching home interfaces. Local interfaces only help with the performance of calling of EJB methods and not with the cost of a JNDI lookup.

Does Service Locator pattern handle situations like Server restart? If you provide a Sample implementation of Service Locator pattern it will be great!!

Thanks
Prasanna