| Re: J2EE - Stateful session bean and Stateless session bean Stateless beans are beans that don’t maintain state across method calls.They are generally intended to perform individual operations automatically.Any instance of stateless bean can be used by any client at any timeStateful session beans maintain state within and between transactions Each Stateful session bean is associated with a specific client.Containers can automatically save and retrieve a beans state in the process of managing instance pools of stateful beans.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> |