Life Cycle of a Message-Driven Bean

The EJB container controls the lifecycle of a Message-Driven bean. The Message-Driven bean instance lifecycle has three states, as shown in Figure 10.1:

  • Does Not Exist— The Message-Driven bean has not been instantiated yet or is awaiting garbage collection.

  • Method Ready Pool— A pool of Message-Driven bean instances, similar to the instance pool used for stateless session beans.

  • Processing a message— The Message-Driven bean has been instantiated and is handling a message.

Figure 10.1. The Message-Driven bean life cycle.

After constructing the new instance of the MDB object, the container invokes the following ...

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