Event scoped stateful session bean and passivation

[flashguru]

Is it correct to assume that stateful session bean with scope event will never be passivated when using TransactionalSeamPhaseListener?

This is because the stateful session bean will be considered in a transaction and therefore it will prevent the EJB3.0 container from passivating it? The rule of not passivating an SFSB when it is in a transaction is mentioned in the EJB3.0 spec (page 63).

[gavin.king]

Thats a pretty fair assumption (though there are a couple of tiny windows).

[flashguru]

Thank you Gavin!

I am trying to understand if there is any benefit to clustering a stateful session bean with scope event. Is it correct to assume that clustering a stateful session bean is not relevant when talking about the event scope?

[gavin.king]

yes, exactly.