Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Development Guide

Session Bean Restrictions and Optimizations

This section discusses restrictions on developing session beans and provides some optimization guidelines.

Optimizing Session Bean Performance

For stateful session beans, colocating the stateful beans with their clients so that the client and bean are executing in the same process address space improves performance.

Restricting Transactions

The following restrictions on transactions are enforced by the container and must be observed as session beans are developed: