A Question about The Life Cycle of a Stateless Session Bean

[kong song]

As We know the bean class may define one @PostConstruct method,
When the EJB server is first started, it may create a number of stateless bean instances and enter them into the Method-Ready Pool.
My Question is that when I define a PostConstruct method in stateless bean, Does this method is invoked for each instance?
in the other words, If I define PostConstruct method for some global resource initialization which should be executed only once, does container call this mehod by each instance more than once?

after all,How can I define some method for initializing global resource and container just only call once? and How about recycle such resource only when the container is closing.

Thanks!

[Jaikiran Pai]

kong song wrote:As We know the bean class may define one @PostConstruct method,
When the EJB server is first started, it may create a number of stateless bean instances and enter them into the Method-Ready Pool.
My Question is that when I define a PostConstruct method in stateless bean, Does this method is invoked for each instance?

Yes, @PostConstruct is per instance of the bean.

kong song wrote:
after all,How can I define some method for initializing global resource and container just only call once? and How about recycle such resource only when the container is closing.

Thanks!

Let's continue this second question in your other thread here