Stateless Session Bean as Stateful session bean

[Pearlo Muthukumaran]

Hi all,
If Client specific information like say session id is persisted in a database
during ejbPassivate() and retrieval of the same during ejbActivate() call-back, can we simulate the stateful behavior in a stateless session bean?
Is the above a valid approach? Can this technique be deployed to replace the usage of resource-intensive stateful session bean with stateles session bean?
Regards
Muthu

[amit mawkin]

passivating Session ID to a persistent storage is
against the basic principals of Stateless Session Beans
Still this could be done.
Weblogic provides a way check the documentation at
http://edocs.bea.com
regards,

[Parul Patidar]

are ejbActivate and ejbPassivate called by container for stateless session beans? lifecycle diagram ofstateless session beans does not show that

Originally posted by amit mawkin:
passivating Session ID to a persistent storage is
against the basic principals of Stateless Session Beans
Still this could be done.
Weblogic provides a way check the documentation at
http://edocs.bea.com
regards,

[Lasse Koskela]

are ejbActivate and ejbPassivate called by container for stateless session beans? lifecycle diagram ofstateless session beans does not show that

Nope, only for stateful session beans. It doesn't make sense to passivate stateless bean instances.