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Looking Under the Hood of a Stateless Session Bean

Figure 5.1 shows the interactions between the client, the EJB container, and the stateless session bean.

Figure 5.1. Under the hood of a stateless session bean.

The following steps describe the sequence of interactions in detail:

1.	At startup, the EJB container registers all the deployed enterprise beans, including stateless session beans, with the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) service, based on the JNDI name specified in the deployment descriptor.
2.	The EJB container decides to instantiate a stateless session bean based on the caching policy. In this example, the EJB container instantiates ...