How to re-use elements in a ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor?

I'm currently writing a set of EJBs that interface with some old EJB2 code. As part of this, I have an ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor that contains resource-refs and ejb-refs for the session beans. All of these definitions are basically identical - only the session bean's name differs between them. Obviously, this isn't ideal - every time I add a new bean, I have to copy and paste a large block of XML.

The structure looks something like this:

<ejb-jar 
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
          http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_1.xsd" version="3.1">
    <enterprise-beans>
        <session>
            <ejb-name>/* redacted */</ejb-name>

            <resource-ref>
                <res-ref-name>/* redacted */</res-ref-name>
                <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
                <res-auth>Application</res-auth>
                <lookup-name>/* redacted */</lookup-name>
            </resource-ref>

            <ejb-ref>
                <ejb-ref-name>/* redacted */</ejb-ref-name>
                <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
                <home>/* redacted */</home>
                <remote>/* redacted */</remote>
            </ejb-ref>

            /* about 20 more ejb-refs later... */
        </session>

        /* several near identical session beans here ... */
</ejb-jar>

Is there any way to re-use these references in multiple definitions without duplication? Or, alternatively, is there a better way of achieving the same end result that I'm missing?

Solution

In my particular scenario, I was able to solve the issue by packaging the EJBs as a WAR instead of a plain JAR file - this allowed me to provide the references in web.xml for the application as a whole, rather than on a per-bean level.