Java Training: - Can you explain stateful and stateless session bean?
Stateful Session bean:-
- Stateful session bean maintain the state of the conversation between the client and itself
- When the client invokes a method on the bean the instance variables of the bean may contain a state but only for the duration of the invocation
- implements the javax.ejb.SessionBean interface and is deployed with the declarative attribute "stateful"
Stateless session bean:-
- A stateless session bean is an enterprise bean that provides a stateless service to the client.
- Conceptually, the business methods on a stateless session bean are similar to procedural applications or static methods; there is no instance state, so all the data needed to execute the method is provided by the method arguments
- implements the javax.ejb.SessionBean interface and is deployed with the declarative attribute "stateless
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