Specifies the entity bean cache properties. Used for entity beans and stateful session beans.
ejb (sun-ejb-jar.xml)
The following table describes subelements for the bean-cache element.
Table A–7 bean-cache Subelements| 
 Element  | 
 Required  | 
 Description  | 
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 zero or one  | 
 Specifies the maximum number of beans allowable in cache.  | 
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 zero or one  | 
 Deprecated.  | 
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 zero or one  | 
 Specifies the maximum time that a stateful session bean or entity bean is allowed to be idle in cache before being passivated. Default value is 10 minutes (600 seconds).  | 
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 zero or one  | 
 Specifies the amount of time a bean remains before being removed. If removal-timeout-in-seconds is less than idle-timeout, the bean is removed without being passivated.  | 
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 zero or one  | 
 Specifies the number of beans to be created if the pool is empty (subject to the max-pool-size limit). Values are from 0 to MAX_INTEGER.  | 
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 zero or one  | 
 Specifies the algorithm that must be used by the container to pick victims. Applies only to stateful session beans.  | 
<bean-cache>
   <max-cache-size>100</max-cache-size>
   <cache-resize-quantity>10</cache-resize-quantity>
   <removal-timeout-in-seconds>3600</removal-timeout-in-seconds>
   <victim-selection-policy>LRU</victim-selection-policy>
      <cache-idle-timeout-in-seconds>600</cache-idle-timeout-in-seconds>
   <removal-timeout-in-seconds>5400</removal-timeout-in-seconds>
</bean-cache>