Why Stateless session beans does't maintaining any conversational state?

[Dhineshkumar raj]

Hi,

can any one clear my doubt.

Why Stateless session beans does't maintaining any conversational state. .
Is there any reason for this???

Regards
Dhinesh Kumar R

[Roger Chung-Wee]

If you need to maintain state, then stateful session bean are available.

Stateless beans are a lightweight version of stateful beans. These stateless beans are usually more appropriate than stateful beans.

[Cameron Wallace McKenzie]

Stateless session beans are pooled, and when needed, any instance can be pulled from the pool, as they are identical. If they had conversational state with the client, not each instance would be identical.

Use stateful session beans if you need to maintain state. Maybe even just the HttpSession if you are developing a Servlet/JSP application.

-Cameron McKenzie