[Jose Javier Camarasa]

Hi…what does happen when an ejb is passivated…
Are his database resources freed or do I have to free then via the ejbpassivated method.

thanks in advance

[Scott Anderson]

Actually, you should probably be obtaining and releasing connections as needed, not holding onto them. These operations are quite fast as the connections come from the server’s connection pool, so closing a connection simply returns it to the pool.

[Scott Anderson]

From the EJB 2.0 spec, section 7.4:

In advanced cases, a session object’s conversational state may contain open resources, such as open
sockets and open database cursors. A container cannot retain such open resources when a session bean
instance is passivated. A developer of such a session bean must close and open the resources in the
ejbPassivate and ejbActivate notifications.

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