Stateless Session Beans

[SCOTT FARQUHAR]

I'm hoping that someone can help me with this.

Can you have a stateless session bean that actually has class variables?

Ie I want to have a variable that is loaded once per application, and then accessed by 
all the whole application.

I know that SLSB are pooled and created and destroyed at will - but will they be 
created with the variable containing a value?

Any thoughts are much appreciated.

Scott