Caching Session Beans

Question

Is there any way to cache Stateless-session beans? We have the following
set up in the descriptor file:
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>statelessSession</ejb-name>
<stateless-session-descriptor>
<pool>
<max-beans-in-free-pool>3000</max-beans-in-free-pool>
<initial-beans-in-free-pool>3000</initial-beans-in-free-p
ool>
</pool>
</stateless-session-descriptor>
<jndi-name>ejb20-statelessBean</jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
for some reason, the bean is loaded as specified, but is being called from
disk for each process, not from the pool/cache.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure that I understand your question.
For stateless session beans, we keep a pool of instances. When you make a
method call, we grab an instance from the pool. When the method call
finishes, we return it to the pool.
There's probably no reason to set this value to 3000. Unless you recursively
call your own instance, you'll never use more slsb instances than you have
execute threads in the server. The default max-beans-in-free-pool value
gives you the maximum parallelism.
-- Rob
[email protected] wrote:
Is there any way to cache Stateless-session beans? We have the following
set up in the descriptor file:
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>statelessSession</ejb-name>
<stateless-session-descriptor>
<pool>
<max-beans-in-free-pool>3000</max-beans-in-free-pool>
<initial-beans-in-free-pool>3000</initial-beans-in-free-p
ool>
</pool>
</stateless-session-descriptor>
<jndi-name>ejb20-statelessBean</jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
for some reason, the bean is loaded as specified, but is being called from
disk for each process, not from the pool/cache.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks