State Management

In order to efficiently manage the size of its working set, a session Bean container need to temporarily transfer the state of an idle session Bean to some form of secondary storage. The transfer from the working set to secondary storage is called passivation. The transfer back is called activation.

The container may only passivate a session Bean when that Bean is not in a tranaction. In order to help its container manage its state, a session Bean is specified at deployment as having one of the following state management modes:

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