Interviw Q: Java Message Bean

[prat de]

Hi,
any of my friends/experts here please let me know:
Java Message Bean - a stateful or a stateless session bean???
- prat.

[David O'Meara]

If you are looking to get answers to technical questions, please post them to a specific forum. If you want to discuss the relevence of the question and why it would be covered in an interview, this is the correct forum.
Mark - I don't think interview questions are working in this forum. What do you think?
Dave.

[prat de]

this was a question asked in my last interview.
- prat.

[Rufus BugleWeed]

You been getting a lot of interviews. What's your secret?

[Nathan Pruett]

Neither really, it's a completly new "class" of bean.

It *is* stateless, but it's not a session bean.

[Al Newman]

The message bean is analogous to the stateless session bean, and will replace a stateless session bean in the architecture if a decision is taken to change the access strategy from synchronous remote or local access to JMS messages.
The only way to provide state is to have the message bean access a stateful session bean. Either that or go to a data store!