Hi Raj, I'm not sure I agree with you. Although those beans inherit those methods from javax.ejb.SessionBean, they are never called in a stateless session bean. Stateless beans are "awake" as they sit in the instance pool so there is no need to wake them up (ejbActivate())or put them to sleep (ejbPassivate()). Also, they do not keep conversational state so there is no need to use these methods no reload the instance with the related client. If you have HF
EJB, pg 223 has the lifecycle diagram for both stateful and stateless session beans.
HTH