Yessss...you are right. The CONTAINER decided when to create a new bean and when to get one from the pool...

Cheers

> When i call the findByPrimaryKey() method on the home
> object, it is seen that the constructor and
> setEntityContext() method of the corresponding BMP
> entity bean are called.
>
> Then i use the remote object returned by the call to
> findByPrimaryKey() to invoke bean's business method,
> what happens is that the constructor and
> setEntityContext() is called and then ejbActivate()
> and ejbLoad().
>
> My question is why is the container creating a new
> instance again when it's first business method is
> called. Isn't the container supposed to use the same
> instance that was created and sent to the pool while
> processing findByPrimaryKey(). Is this behavior
> conatiner dependent ? I am using jboss 3.04.

The first invocation is against the home interface,
it is not associated with any data. It just generates
a proxy object that can be used to access the
real bean. This invocation is stateless.

When you use the proxy, it will create real bean
with a primary key and data. You might never do
this if you are just checking for existance.

I don't know why it doesn't return the bean used
in the home invocation to the pool. There
is a comment in the code saying the author chose
not do this, but it doesn't say why?

Regards,
Adrian