Working with Stateless Session Beans

In this section, you learn how to create, deploy, and use a Stateless Session Bean. As discussed earlier, Stateless Session Beans maintain no client-specific conversational state. They perform particular tasks on invocation and return the results to the client. Once that's done, other clients can make requests to the same bean instance. The bean does not distinguish between clients. Neither does it distinguish between first and subsequent calls from the same client. Because of this, a client should not assume that it will get the same instance of the bean every time it performs a request. Stateless Session Beans should typically be used to perform any generic operation that can be performed completely by making ...

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