The fundamental idea of idea of Entperise Beans is to have two parts: The interface that is used to acces the bean and the implementation itself. The later is stored by the application server and might even be on a remote machine. Where you store the handle of a stateful session bean is entirely up to you as a developer - but, yes, usually you would put into the http session. Regards Felix View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4037460#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...