I know this is a dumb question.

I have a servlet that creates a stateful session bean

Context ctx = getInitialContext();
TraderHome brokerage = (TraderHome) ctx.lookup("statefulSession.TraderHome");

// Give this trader a name
Trader trader = brokerage.create("Terry");

Once the sfsb does its thing the servlet returns some data. A subsequent call gets made to a different servlet (for the same logical person).

How can this second servlet instance find the previously created sfsb?

Does it do the same lookup/create as the original servlet did?

What prevents the stateful session bean from getting garbage collected?

Thx