Accessing Application Scope from an EJB

I'm not sure of the best way of doing this:
The set up:
We have a rather large J2EE application that is composed of only servlets and JSPs at the moment (When the application began development EJB was in its infancy and not feasible for the development of the app). Some of the new deployments of the app involve distributed webserver over 4 JVMs and 2 machines. When a user connects the servers load balancing decides which particular JVM they should be connected to. We perform large data caching into the servlet application scope to avoid having to access the database every time a change is made by a user to certain tables in our database. The data caches are stored in hashtables in the servlet application scope.We seem to have no way to determine what other JVMs are running or which JVM a user is currently connected to.
The problem:
Apparently the application scope is for a particular JVM. This means that when a user makes a change to a data cache the change doesn't effect users in the other 3 JVMs of the application, only the users who, due to load balancing, happened to be connected to the same JVM as the one where the change was made.
Our possible solution:
We were thinking that we could set up a queue (such as MQSeries from IBM) and any time a change is made to one of these data caches put a message on the stack saying that the particular table had been updated. Then a MDB would be listening asynchronously and digest the message from the Queue and recache the tables from the database.
So here are my questions:
1. Would this work? Would putting a MDB in the EJB Container give each JVM the MDB in the first place, or would this mean it would pick one of the JVMs to deploy the MDB on and still not fix our problem.
2. If this does work, how do I access the hashtables stored in the Servlet Application scope from the MDB. I can't seem to find any method available to the MDB (or any EJBs for that matter) that can access the servlets Application scope.
3. Is this the best way to do this? Or is there a better way to share data between seperate JVMs that I don't have a URL to (It's all ambiguous and handled by the server as to which JVM actually gets the connection.)
Just in case this is needed:
We are running IBM WebSphere 5 Application Server and the database could be anything from DB2 to Oracle.
Thanks in advance for any possible help.

You wont get any api for directly accessing Servlet application objects from any ejb. I dont think MDB either solves your problem directly. Indirectly you can place a request to some servlet (should be there for each JVM and web application ) and update your application scope variable. I would suggest you to cache the data in database if the size of cache is large. otherwise any open caching tools may help you.

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