Why SLSB maintain state between method invocation?

[kingofhawks]

Hi:
I have written a SLSB like following:

public @Stateless class SwitchHealthMgrBean implements SwitchHealthMgrLocal,SwitchHealthMgrRemote {
private Logger logger=Logger.getLogger(SwitchHealthMgrBean.class);
private int count=0;
public void start() {
count=1;
logger.info("Count#"+count);

}

public void stop() {
logger.info("Count#"+count);

}
}

And i have written a client(JSP page) to first invoke start(),second invoke stop(),the logger info indicates that it has maintained state between method invocation!
Anyone can tell me why?
Best Regards!
Kingofhawks

[wolfc]

JSR 220: Enterprise JavaBeansTM,Version 3.0, Final Release, 4.5 Stateless Session Beans, 2nd paragraph:

The term ?stateless? signifies that an instance has no state for a specific client. However, the instance
variables of the instance can contain the state across client-invoked method calls. Examples of such
state include an open database connection and an object reference to an enterprise bean object.