Why are ejbActivate() and ejb Passivate() included for stateless session bean even though they are never required as it is nonconversational bean

To have a consistent interface, so that there is no different interface that you need to implement for Stateful Session Bean and Stateless Session Bean. Both Stateless and Stateful Session Bean implement javax.ejb.SessionBean and this would not be possible if stateless session bean is to remove ejbActivate and ejbPassivate from the interface. You could argue that the two (stateful and stateless) are so different that they should have their own interface but Sun did not think so. They made both session beans implement the same interface and provided deployment descriptor to denote which one is it that you are deploying.

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Ginni

Jul 20th, 2005

The simple reason is to manage your resources. For eg. if you use/open any third party resource on ejbActivate, you need to make sure ejbPassivate close the connection/ release the use of resource regardless of stateful session or stateless session.