Chuck-
Sounds like a perfect fit for a stateless session bean.
Best Regards,
Randy Stafford
Senior Achitect
GemStone Professional Services
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Butkus [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 11:21 AM
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> Subject: Bean Design Question
>
> In our application, we have the need for a component that can be accessed
> by
> multiple clients but that does not need to store its information
> persistently. It needs to have high performance so storing and loading
> to/from persistent storage on a regular basis would not work.
>
> We are looking at using EJB to provide scalability and failover so we
> would
> like to have this object represented as an Enterprise Bean.
>
> The problem is it doesn't seem to fit in either the Session or Entity bean
> category.
>
> Can we use an entity bean that doesn't talk to a database in its
> ejbLoad/ejbStore methods?? How would this affect scalability and
> failover?
> Should this be an enterprise bean at all?
>
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