Stateless Session Bean Introduction
Stateless Session Beans are business objects that do not have state associated with them. The @Stateless annotation is used to mark the class as Stateless Session Bean. Access to a single bean [...]
@Stateless Annotation
The @Stateless annotation is used to mark the class as Stateless Session Bean. This annotation’s specification is as follows. @Target(value=TYPE) @Retention(value=RUNTIME) public @interface [...]
Creating a Stateless Session Bean
Business Interface Create the bean interface and mark it either as @Remote, @Local or @WebService. Remote Interface Local Interface Web service interface Bean implementation class Create a class [...]
Stateless Session Bean’s Lifecycle Callback Methods
The lifecycle callbacks are methods defined in the bean class but not in business interface which the container calls when specific lifecycle event or transition occurs. The following two [...]
Stateless Session Bean Lifecycle
A stateless session bean instance’s life starts when the container invokes the newInstance method on the session bean class to create a new session bean instance. Next, the container performs any [...]
Stateless Session Bean Pooling
The application container can pool instances of stateless session beans to increase performance. When the client requests an operation on the bean, the container can assign an available instance [...]