Stateless Container

The stateless container manages stateless session beans, which, by definition, do not carry client-specific states. All session beans (of a particular type) are considered equal.

A stateless session bean container uses a bean pool to service requests. The Application Server specific deployment descriptor file, sun-ejb-jar.xml, contains the properties that define the pool:

• steady-pool-size

• resize-quantity

• max-pool-size

• pool-idle-timeout-in-seconds

For more information about sun-ejb-jar.xml, see The sun-ejb-jar.xml File in Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Application Deployment Guide.

The Application Server provides the wscompile and wsdeploy tools to help you implement a web service endpoint as a stateless session bean. For more information about these tools, see the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Reference Manual.