why do u require stateful session bean if no instance variable?

[Malli Raman]

Instance variables are used to store the values between method invocation in the stateful session bean. If there is no variable then what is the use of declaring the bean as stateful?

[David Harkness]

I read your question as "Why make a session bean stateful if it doesn't maintain any state?" The answer is "Insanity."

Use stateful session beans only when you must maintain state for the client in the bean itself. Many times you can simply pass in the state (which the client maintains) as parameters to a stateless session bean.

[Malli Raman]

Originally posted by David Harkness:
I read your question as "Why make a session bean stateful if it doesn't maintain any state?" The answer is "Insanity."

Use stateful session beans only when you must maintain state for the client in the bean itself. Many times you can simply pass in the state (which the client maintains) as parameters to a stateless session bean.

Hi David,

I just want to make sure that the answer is correct