Problem:

• Product Name: Borland Enterprise Server - AppServer
• Product Version: 5.2.1
• Product Component: iastool -merge
• Platform/OS Version: All
• JDK/Compiler Version: 1.3.1 and 1.4.1

If ejb.xml or/and ejb-borland.xml files contain identical or definitions they are duplicated in the result merged descriptors when two ebj containing duplicate info are merged.
 

Resolution:

Table properties are stored in a hashtable keyed off table name, so internally the second set of attributes would overlay the first. As long as the entries are truly duplicates, this will be fine.

Security role in the assembly descriptor is only used to populate the drop-down lists for method permissions, so the presence of an extra entry for a given role name should not be a problem.