newbie: stateless component

[mars1412]

hi,

for test reasons, I have created a very simple class, that only returns some simple values (see below for details). However, since the class does not need to keep any state, I think I should add the @Stateless annotation. But this does not work - without the @Stateless annotation it works fine, and I can access all the methods/data as expected, but when I add the @Stateless annotation, the JBoss server will mutter:

javax.el.ELException: /public.xhtml: Could not instantiate Seam component: localeTest
...
Caused by: org.jboss.seam.InstantiationException: Could not instantiate Seam component: localeTest
...
Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: LocaleTest not bound at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:529)

any ideas?

package com.twentyfouract.test000.session;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;

import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;

// does not work with this stateless annotation
 @Stateless
@Name("localeTest")
public class LocaleTest implements Serializable {

 long lValue = 3;

 double dValue = 3124.1415926;

 /**
 * UID for serialization
 */
 private static final long serialVersionUID = -1157053379099060115L;

 public long getlValue() {
 return lValue;
 }

 public void setlValue(long value) {
 lValue = value;
 }

 public Date getCurrentDate() {
 return new java.util.Date();
 }

 public double getdValue() {
 return dValue;
 }

 public void setdValue(double value) {
 dValue = value;
 }
}

[mars1412]

ok - I just found out why this does not work
when you use the @Stateless or @Stateful annotation:

* the class must implement a method with the @Remove annotation.
from the seam reference manual:

In addition, stateful session bean components must define a method with no parameters annotated @Remove.
This method is called by Seam when the context ends

* the class must implement an interface with all its public methods

However, I do not really understand what the difference is:
When I omit the @Stateless annotation I can access all fields and everything works just fine, so why should I bother adding the @Stateless annotaion, an empty (!) @Remove function and an interface?
It's just way more work for me, without benefit (?).