Reg Primary Key generation

[Vikram Naik]

Hello All,        This is with regards to the primary key generation pattern discussed in the book EJB Design Patterns. They have mentioned one example of a SessionBean generating a unique key using the UUID algorithm, but what was confusing for me is they were caching some variables as instance members and calling the session as a "Stateless" one ... the bean initializes the member variables in the ejbcreate and the stored values are used in the method which actually generates the key ... Can we call this bean a SLSB . I think its SFSB ..   What say ???   Regards, Vikram Naik