side effects in value object passed to session bean?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

If I pass a value object to a session bean and the bean makes a change to the object, is it reflected in the client's version?
For example, the client contains:

  
MyValueObject vo = new MyValueObject();
vo.setFieldOne("testData1");
vo.setFieldTwo("testData2");
bean.method(vo);

and the ejb contains:

public String method(MyValueObject v)  {
  v.setFieldTwo("ejbData");
  return "phrase";
}

After the call, will vo.getFieldTwo() return "testData2" or "ejbData"?
For normal (local) method calls, I would expect "ejbData" to be returned. When I ran it in my EJB, it looked like "testData2" was returned. Is this the expected behavior or am I doing something wrong?
(edited to fix last paragraph)
[ September 05, 2003: Message edited by: Jeanne Boyarsky ]

[Chris Mathews]

This is expected since a local call uses pass by reference. The results would be as you expected if it was a remote call.

[Lasse Koskela]

Even if you've written a remote interface only, some appservers use pass-by-reference (a la local interfaces) if they detect that the call is actually local to the JVM. This feature can be disabled, though.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Oops. The original post should have read:
For normal (local) method calls, I would expect "ejbData" to be returned. When I ran it in my EJB, it looked like "testData2" was returned. Is this the expected behavior or am I doing something wrong?
I do understand that local calls are pass-by-reference. Lasse, are you saying that EJB calls can be pass-by-reference or pass-by-value? In other words, I should not rely on it being pass-by-reference in my EJB.

[Lasse Koskela]

When you're talking about "local method call", are you implying that your EJB reference is an EJB local interface? In that case, it could by either pass-by-reference or pass-by-value depending on your application server's default behavior and whether you have overridden that default with the vendor-specific deployment descriptor.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Lasse,

When you're talking about "local method call", are you implying that your EJB reference is an EJB local interface?

No. I only wrote about "local method calls" so nobody would answer about regular (J2SE) calls. Clearly that confused the issue. Sorry!
It looks like the answer to my question is that EJB parameters are pass by value. That makes sense as there is normally no reason to pass the parameters back.