Sorry about this but something is going wrong with my posts.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louth, William (Exchange)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 12:59 PM
> To: 'A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development'
> Subject: RE: Pooling Stateless Session Beans
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> A stateless session bean can hold state which can become corrupt with
> multiple concurrent access. "Stateless" relates to the fact that the state
> is not pertinent to one client i.e. you can hold state in the bean which
> can be accessed by many users. Think of a reference type manager which
> holds list of list of reference type objects (Java objects) like
> Countries, Cities, StatusTypes.....these can be uploaded from a database
> once (they are reference data -relatively unchanging) by an instance. When
> the client logs in the reference type manager can return the list of lists
> to the client for its own runtime cache. This is especially useful where
> client have list boxes and combo boxes which require population. To handle
> the case of the data becoming out-of-date the reference manager could use
> some time out mechanism or jndi entry flag to determine if the in memory
> list should be reread from the database during the method processing. So
> during this operation we do not want to service any clients. Hope this is
> a bit understandable.
>
> kind regards,
>
> William Louth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Ford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 12:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Pooling Stateless Session Beans
>
> I just read an article Java Developers Journal about stateless session
> ejbs.
> It said one of the benefits of stateless ejbs is that they can be more
> easily pooled. This may be a dumb question, but what is the point of
> pooling
> a stateless bean? What exactly is getting pooled, if there is no state?
> Isn't a stateless bean just a bunch of functions?
>
> Dave
>
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