Question about conversational state of Stateless bean....

Question

Hello all,
I have a simple stateless bean which parses an XML file and stores the xml content as an list of 2-D arrays in member variables. Here is quick look at design...
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
// included other libraries
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
@Stateless
public class XMLParseBean implements XMLParseBeanInterface {
    public List<String> strParameters;
    public List<String> getStrParameters() {
        return strParameters;
    private void setStrParameters(List<String> strParameters) {
        this.strParameters = strParameters;
    public void parseXML(String strFileName) {
           /* Open the XML file and do initializations for xml parsing here
            setStrParameters(visitNode(doc.getDocumentElement()));
    private List<String> visitNode(Element thisNode) {
            /* Parse the XML here */
            return strNodes; // return the node names and their values
}My question is : if I inject this bean in another bean, call the method for parsing XML and then call the getParameter method to access the value of member variable, will it work.
I mean since I am using stateless bean, does the conversation state end when the parseXML method ends?

Answer 1

sir_edward wrote:
Hi vikram8jp,
The session of an stateless bean ends after a method call. If you call a method of your bean, the bean will forget all attributes when the method ends. If you want to save attributes, you have to use a stateful bean.
Regards
Sir EdwardHello Sir Edward,
That answers my query.