State is retained if the bean instance is pooled, right?
May be we should reword the "references to the XXX state ... returned
through multiple local interface method calls"?
thanks,
-marina
Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> 4.7 Stateless Session Beans
>
> A common misconception with beginning EJB users is that Stateless
> Session Beans are not considered stateful POJOs, while in actuality
> state is retained. Maybe we should call it 'retained bean state'
> instead of 'common bean state'.
>
> Carlo
>
> On 07/06/2011 01:02 AM, Marina Vatkina wrote:
>> Dear Experts,
>>
>> Before we go any further on the discussions of the spec improvements,
>> we need to close on several issues with the current version:
>>
>> 1. Vote on the optionality of the Entity Beans and JAX-RPC based Web
>> Service Endpoints (and the split of the spec into 2 parts, but the
>> split is the secondary issue). I have only 3 votes (positive) so far.
>>
>> 2. Close on the items marked by Linda as XXX in the drafts.
>>
>> 3. Define *deterministic* rules in the EJB spec about EJB Lite vs.
>> EJB Full list of features in regards to the EJB support in a Web
>> Profile container. In addition to be very flexible (contrary to the
>> regular Java EE approach, and the expectations of the EJB TCK), the
>> current wording in the spec does not make it clear a) what is
>> expected and what is not in the Web Profile, and b) if we keep it
>> flexible, how a user (at deployment and/or runtime) can determine if
>> a specific feature outside EJB Lite is available/supported.
>>
>> The same applies to the Embeddable EJB Container.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> -marina
>>
>>
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