oops, I'm pretty sure that using @Stateless beans isn't going to improve the performance of your app significantly. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091741#4091741 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4091741