Rickard
What you say is true, but I thought the main savings were in object creation
and garbage collection. That is why stateless session beans (which normally
will have no state whatsoever) are pooled isn't it?
Cheers
Lawrence
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> From: Rickard Öberg[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Sent: 01 March 2001 14:42
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> Subject: Re: Entity Beans
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> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 04:52:11 -0800, Kirk Pepperdine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >but what's the point of pooling entity beans?
> >
>
> I'd say there are two cases. If your EntityBeans do not have a lot of
> client and entity identity specific state, then it might just as well be
> better to not to pool Entity instances, since todays JVM's do quite a
> decent job at memory mgmt anyway.
>
> However, if you allocate a lot of state in setEntityContext (i.e. state
> that is not client and not identity dependent) it's another deal. As it
> happens I had a case like this where the pooling of instances was
> absolutely critical to getting decent performance.
>
> So, as usual, it depends on the particular usecase. At least the EJB
> contract allows it.
>
> regards,
> Rickard
>
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