1. A method for browsing EJB entity beans by means of a Java servlet which is invoked by a service request from a browser including a name of an entity bean type and an entity bean key, the method using an EJB server and a persistency store for storing entity bean properties, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a bean home in a directory by using the name of an entity bean type; finding an entity bean instance in the identified bean home according to the entity bean key; introspecting the entity bean instance found and retrieving properties of the entity bean instance from the persistency store by using information received from introspection; and generating a service response object containing a representation according to the retrieved information.