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| The environment is set up by the container through the JNDI interface and its scope is defined by the home instance. |
| If a container deploys a multiple home instances for the same bean class, each one of them can be deployed with different environment settings. The bean instances that belongs to the same home shares the same customization. |
| Each bean deployment descriptor contains the declaration about the environment variables |
| The value of environment variables are read-only for enterprise beans. |