Hi,
I have configured NoPassivationPolicy for Clustered Stateful SessionBean container and Standard Stateful SessionBean container in all/conf/standardjboss.xml
Still I observe that ejbPassivate() is being called. And this I observe only in the clustered setup. It is my requriement that the stateful session bean should not be passivated.
Should I make any other changes apart from configuring NoPassivationPolicy in the cluster set up ?
Any help would be very helpful.

Here is my configuration:

<container-configuration>
 <container-name>Standard Stateful SessionBean</container-name>
 <call-logging>false</call-logging>
 <invoker-proxy-binding-name>stateful-rmi-invoker</invoker-proxy-binding-name>
 <container-interceptors>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor</interceptor>
 <!-- CMT -->
 <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorCMT</interceptor>
 <interceptor transaction="Container" metricsEnabled="true">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.MetricsInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor</interceptor>
 <!-- BMT -->
 <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorBMT</interceptor>
 <interceptor transaction="Bean" metricsEnabled="true">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.MetricsInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor</interceptor>
 </container-interceptors>
 <instance-cache>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceCache</instance-cache>
 <persistence-manager>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager</persistence-manager>
 <container-cache-conf>
 <cache-policy>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.NoPassivationCachePolicy</cache-policy>
 </container-cache-conf>
 <container-pool-conf>
 <MaximumSize>100</MaximumSize>
 </container-pool-conf>
 </container-configuration>

 <container-configuration>
 <container-name>Clustered Stateful SessionBean</container-name>
 <call-logging>false</call-logging>
 <invoker-proxy-binding-name>clustered-stateful-rmi-invoker</invoker-proxy-binding-name>
 <container-interceptors>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CleanShutdownInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor</interceptor>
 <!-- CMT -->
 <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorCMT</interceptor>
 <interceptor transaction="Container" metricsEnabled="true">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.MetricsInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor</interceptor>
 <!-- BMT -->
 <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorBMT</interceptor>
 <interceptor transaction="Bean" metricsEnabled="true">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.MetricsInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulHASessionSynchronisationInterceptor</interceptor>
 </container-interceptors>
 <instance-cache>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulHASessionInstanceCache</instance-cache>
 <persistence-manager>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulHASessionPersistenceManager</persistence-manager>
 <container-cache-conf>
 <cache-policy>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.NoPassivationCachePolicy</cache-policy>
 </container-cache-conf>
 <container-pool-conf>
 <MaximumSize>100</MaximumSize>
 </container-pool-conf>
 </container-configuration>