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Stateful Session Bean Lifecycle

Now that you have learned how to specify, implement, and deploy stateless Session beans, it is time to look at stateful Session beans. As you shall see, there are many similarities (especially with regard to the deployment), but the lifecycle is different and warrants close attention.

The client's view of the lifecycle of a stateful Session bean is identical to that of a stateless Session bean and, in truth, more closely matches the actual lifecycle as managed by the container. Figure 5.13 shows this lifecycle.

Figure 5.13. The client's view of the lifecycle of stateful beans is identical to that of stateless Session beans.

From the client's perspective, the bean is simply instantiated when the client calls create() ...