instance pooling

Hi,
what is instance pooling and how will we use it?
Thanks in advance,
Karthik

its a techneque used to increase the efficiency of the machine (server) probiding the connectioins to either DB or to any application server...

Hi,
Thanks a lot
regards,
KG

"Instance pooling" is a technique used by EJB servers to create multiple copies of stateless session beans and then distribute them as needed. Since they are stateless, there is no memory from one use to the next so they can be pulled from the pool by the EJB server as they are requested.