Working with Stateful Session Beans
In the previous section, we looked at the different aspects of writing and deploying a Stateless Session Bean. In this section, we look at the Stateful Session Bean. As we go along, you'll see that developing a Stateful Session Bean is very similar to developing its Stateless counterpart. Because of this, you'll find that this section refers you to sections of the Stateless Session Beans discussion wherever relevant. However, you must understand the conceptual differences between these two types of Session Beans.
Unlike its Stateless counterpart, a Stateful Session Bean instance is associated with a client and cannot be shared across different clients. It represents a single client on the application server ...
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