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Types of Session Beans

There are two types of session beans: stateless and stateful. Stateless session beans are business objects that hold conversations that span a single client-invoked method call. They do not maintain any conversational state associated with any client. Stateful session beans are business objects that hold conversations that span multiple client-invoked method calls. Stateful session beans provide an easy and robust way to handle conversational state.

Stateless Session Beans

Stateless session beans do not maintain the conversational state associated with any client. The client is responsible for maintaining the conversational state, if any. The container could reuse the same instance to serve multiple clients. This makes ...