Re: Caching of read-only DB contents in an EJB

[Rickard �berg]

Hi!

"Lahooti, Hamid" wrote:
> >>Almost but not quite. Readonly data can be cached by stateless session
> >>beans. If you need read/write caching then either use Entities or a RMI
> >>object.
>
> A stateless session bean with a state?

Yes. If it's readonly and not client specific. Sure.

> as a singleton?

I didn't say that.

> and it
> doesn't get destroyed by the container?

The state may be kept in instance variables of each stateless session
bean instance, or if you want to optimize it you could store it in
static variables and use lazy loading (i.e. check on each usage that the
class has not been reset, in which case you load the data again).

/Rickard

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