Apratim , you can't define number of bean instance in the deployment descriptor , but you MAY do this by the administration tool provided by your application server and this will be different from application server to another
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I am agree with that you can not define it (the total created number
EJB) in the deployment descriptor, but you can define number of EJB instances that are created at your application starts point in the DD.
[ May 07, 2006: Message edited by: wise owen ]
[ May 07, 2006: Message edited by: wise owen ]