[jBoss-User] Stateless session beans, and instance data..

[Peter Henderson]

Hi all.. I can't find a clear answer on this, so i thought i would ask the gurus. ;-)   Is it safe to store home interface(s) objects within a stateless session bean? Should I do anything when ejbPassivate/ejbActivate() is called?     eg..   public class RouterBean implements SessionBean, RouterSessionBeanBusinessInterface {       private static final boolean VERBOSE = true;    // set to false for release....       AgentHome agentBeanHome;    // an entity bean home    is this permitted on a stateless session bean?       public RouterBean() {     }       public void ejbCreate() {         if ( VERBOSE ) System.out.println("In ejbCreate" );                   InitialContext jndiContext1 = new InitialContext();                 Object ref  = jndiContext1.lookup("AgentBean");                 agentBeanHome = (AgentHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow (ref, AgentHome.class);     }       public void ejbActivate() throws javax.ejb.EJBException, java.rmi.RemoteException {         if ( VERBOSE ) System.out.println("In ejbActivate");     }       public void ejbPassivate() throws javax.ejb.EJBException, java.rmi.RemoteException {         if ( VERBOSE ) System.out.println("In ejbPassivate");     }       public void ejbRemove() throws javax.ejb.EJBException, java.rmi.RemoteException {         //TODO: Implement this javax.ejb.SessionBean method     }