A choice has to be made whether state is stored as one or as three SFSBs,
From a design point of view there are sound reasons why three SFSBs are more than reasonable.
From a scalability point of view,however, one SFSBs would probably be a more pragmatic but also a more scalable choice.
Any ideas on how to choose between the design or pragmatic solution are welcome.
This is an EJB centric architecture. Hence the recommended approach is the usage of SFSB.
The question is, however, focused on the choice to be made. Any ideas on that?
Is a Stateful session bean the only solution? How does it scale? How does it perform?
I beleive (correct me if I'm wrong) that a stateful bean is almost in all cases, the wrong choice. Cleartly I do not know the assignment you are working on.