Hello,
I have a similar problem.
I use a stateful session bean with a removalTimeoutSeconds = 60 (for testing), but after the timeout the method annotated with @Remove is not executed.
Only the method annotated with @PreDestroy is called.
In the heap dump I can still see the session bean object in memory.
I want to use the removalTimeout for such sessions which terminate abnormal.
If the client terminates normal, it calls the method annotated with @Remove and then the method annotated with @PreDestroy.
In this scenario the session bean object is not present in the memory anymore.
I use the application server jboss 4.2.3_GA.
Kind regards
Michael