My session bean may take connection from one of 2 available pools. Its choice depends on transaction attribute that was defined on this bean (it is defined globally for all methods).
My question is:
How I can access transaction attribute value that was defined in ejb-jar.xml (not reading the file directly, but via some API)?
Thank you.

I don't think that there is a way to do that in stanard J2EE API,
 it might be avaliable ,however, through the AppServer you are using.

 a manual way which might work :
 through your bean try locating the URL of the ejb jar which is the source of
 your bean , using a code like that :
   
    sbean.getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation()

 then init a classloader which include in its path the jar and use the
 getResource() method to locate the ejb-jar.xml
 
 ofer

Hi,
The transaction attributes are deceided at deployment time. Simmilar, you should deceide the connection pool (datasource) at deployment time. This can be done through an env-entry in your bean deployment descriptor, or some other config strategy (property files in calsspath, etc).
Best regards,Mircea