So that during the processing of the event (request) the SessionBean maintains its state across method calls made to it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044993#4044993 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4044993