Entity beans can and are pooled. An instance of an entity bean (without
identity/associated EJBObject) is used to service finder methods.
Different instances can also service the same EJBObject. The container will
typically call ebjLoad/ejbStore when the bean is activated and passivated.
Cheers
Lawrence
> ----------
> From: Satyabrata Dash[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development
> Sent: 01 March 2001 11:36
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Entity Beans
>
> Only stateless session beans can be instance pooled. Because there is no
> identity associated with a stateless session bean. So they can serve any
> client. Even though a stateful bean has no identity but they are dedicated
> to
> a single client. The entity beans have an identity(Primary key) associated
> with them. So even they are instance pooled they won't be of much help
> because they can't be used to serve any other client. Therefore the
> specification doesn't allow instance pooling of stateful and entity beans.
>
> But there are vendor specific solutions like weblogic allows caching of
> entity and stateful beans.
>
> Rgds
> Satya
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hariharan N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:35 PM
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> Subject: Entity Beans
>
>
> Can the Entity beans Instanced Pooled? If not why??
>
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