Doubt in mock exam Qs from HFEJB

Q-9 in HFEJB final mock exam:

Which statements concerning stateless session beans are true?
Option c) A single instance can support concurrent calls.

is not marked correct, although the spec says that a single stateless bean instance can handle concurrent calls. Is it not supposed to be this way?

Please clarify.

Thanks
Mini

concurrent calls are not allowed.kindly mention the page number you are mentioning of spec.

Section 7.5.8 on Page 83 of the spec :-

Clients are not allowed to make concurrent calls to a stateful session object. If a client-invoked business method is in progress on an instance when another client-invoked call, from the same or different client,
arrives at the same instance of a stateful session bean class, the container may throw the java.rmi.RemoteException to the second client[7] if the client is a remote client, or the javax.ejb.EJBException if the client is a local client.
This restriction does not apply to a stateless session bean because the container routes each request to a different instance of the session bean
class.

What does the last line mean? Is concurrent access allowed or not?

Thanks
Mini

Hi Mini,
you seem to be using the ejb 2.1 spec.In case you are preparing for SCBCD 1.3 then the spec is ejb 2.0.

Any stateless bean serves only one client at a time.
Refer to 103 of hfejb in case you have a copy.

" a single bean can handle multiple clients,as long as only one client at a time is in the middle of a business method invocation."

Hey Rajan,

Thanks for correcting. Yes I was using spec2.1

Now I am referring to the correct spec but I can see the same stmt there on Page 76 sec 7.5.6.

" a single bean can handle multiple clients,as long as only one client at a time is in the middle of a business method invocation."

What HFEJB mentions is correct, but this is what the conatiner takes care of, giving each request to a new instance. But does that mean if client tries to make concurrent calls on the stateless bean, it will get exception as it does in the case of a stateful session bean.

Originally posted by Mini Sarin:
Hey Rajan,

Thanks for correcting. Yes I was using spec2.1

Now I am referring to the correct spec but I can see the same stmt there on Page 76 sec 7.5.6.

What HFEJB mentions is correct, but this is what the conatiner takes care of, giving each request to a new instance. But does that mean if client tries to make concurrent calls on the stateless bean, it will get exception as it does in the case of a stateful session bean.

How can a client call on a particular bean? When each bean is same and do not have unique identity as in stateful.Everytime you make a call a freely available bean will be picked up,if not available one is created.

Yes you are right. Got it, thanks.