Need Stateful Session Bean Concurent Access

[sero]

Hi,

I need to have the possibility to make concurent calls from one client to his unique stateful session bean. Does jBoss support re-entrant tags for stateful SB in ejb descriptors?

thanks,
Dikran

[mschoning]

A stateful session bean is re-entrant so you can make sequential call to the same bean from your client. The re-entrant tags normally apply to entity beans which by default are stateless. I don't know if Jboss supports re-entrant entity beans or not. But if that is what you need I would suggest using a stateful session bean together with an entity bean anyways.

Michael

[sero]

Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply (just today I found out that I need to do myself the check for the forum reply),

I should clarify a little the issue:
- My client should have an unique entry point in the appsrv (ie. a session facade)
- The client should be able to keep many simultaneous commands running independently upon the appsrv; some of the commands will need to keep state between calls (ie a paginated search), some not;
- There should be (ideally) a single exported EJB reference to the client, in order to achieve a high decoupling.

This is the main reason for which I am looking for a multi-threaded access to a Stateful Session Bean or some other way to achieve this goal.

Cheers,
dikran