Context.lookup in a Servlet always returns the same Stateful Session Bean

Question

Hi,
I am working on an application in which a Servlet should obtain one StateFul Session Bean per client. I read in EJB 3.0 in Action that to do so I should use a jndi lookup and save the result of the lookup in an HttpSession. This works fine for me when I have a single client.
My issue is that when I have several clients, context.lookup returns the same SFSB for each client. This means that I end up having a single SFSB for the whole application. I've been browsing the web for a while now trying to find a solution but haven't had any luck yet.
The code I use to obtain and save the SFSB is the following:
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
DFMServiceRemote service = (DFMServiceRemote) session.getAttribute("DFMService");
if (null == service)
     service = (DFMServiceRemote) new InitialContext().lookup("DFMService");
     session.setAttribute("DFMService", service);
}Using different browser, I end up with different HttpSession but a single SFSB. The only workaround I found is to create the context with environment variables or properties. It then returns different SFSBs for different HttpSession. The workaround code is as below:
Hashtable<String, String> env = new Hashtable<String, String>();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "oc4jadmin");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "welcome");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ormi://localhost:23791/DriverFatigue");
service = (DFMServiceRemote) new InitialContext(env).lookup("DFMService");My question is the following. How can I get a different instance of an SFSB every time I execute context.lookup without specifying properties.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Matthieu Siggen

Answer 1

I just did something similar in another project using JBoss instead of oc4j and didn't have any problem. I expect I missed a configuration file in oc4j or there is a conflict somewhere.