Cached Remote EJB in WAS7 (issue after the remote server is restarted)

Hi,

I am using Spring to lookup remote EJBs from a WebSphere 7 server with caching enabled.

Everything is going great until the remote server is restarted. After which the remote calls are amazingly slow! If i restart the spring server (which btw is another WebSphere instance) everything comes back to normal.

Anyone having this issue?

Code:

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<jee:remote-slsb id="esperRemote"
                jndi-name="EsperSessionBeanRemote"
                business-interface=".EsperSessionBeanRemote"
                home-interface="EsperSessionBeanRemote" cache-home="true"
                resource-ref="true" lookup-home-on-startup="false"
                environment-ref="eventJndiProperties"
                refresh-home-on-connect-failure="true"/>

<bean id="eventJndiProperties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
                <property name="properties">
                      <props>
                              <prop key="java.naming.factory.initial">com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory</prop>
                              <prop key="java.naming.provider.url">${java.naming.provider.url.event}</prop>
                      </props>
            </property>
    </bean>

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