posted 17 years ago
Marx,
The question whether to include stateful session beans in our design, was raised many times in this forum; many people are very determined to be on one side or the other.
Horst and many other fellows are reluctant to use stateful session beans, because of practical implementation issues that different application servers had and have with these beans.
However, as an architect you need to factor into your decision, the benefits of a particular technology and weigh it against the current/past implementation problems.
Personally, I think that Sun would be delighted to see stateful session beans in your design, whenever it's appropriate, and it's definitely appropriate in certain places in our solution.
Regards,
Dan
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