Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Update 2 Developer's Guide

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## Restrictions and Optimizations

This section discusses restrictions on developing session beans and provides some optimization guidelines:

- Optimizing Session Bean Performance

- Restricting Transactions

### Optimizing Session Bean Performance

For stateful session beans, colocating the stateful beans with their clients so that the client and bean are executing in the same process address space improves performance.

### Restricting Transactions

The following restrictions on transactions are enforced by the container and must be observed as session beans are developed:

- A session bean can participate in, at most, a single transaction at a time.

- If a session bean is participating in a transaction, a client cannot invoke a method on the bean such that the `trans-attribute` element in the `ejb-jar.xml` file would cause the container to execute the method in a different or unspecified transaction context or an exception is thrown.

- If a session bean instance is participating in a transaction, a client cannot invoke the `remove` method on the session object’s home or component interface object or an exception is thrown.

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