"pete.muir(a)jboss.org" wrote : This is scope to the request scope by default - so it is stateful across the request but its *not* conversational. | | @Name("pojo") | | class Pojo {} Wait, I thought conversation scope was the default scope? It is for SFSBs, right? If I annotate my bean with @Name @Stateful, I get a conversation-scoped bean. If I put just @Name, it's a POJO, and you're saying it's request scoped? This still doesn't fully answer the question. Most things can be done with POJOs. For example most beans aren't message-driven. For many simple things there is no performance benefit to clustering beans. So, should we be using EJBs or POJOs? POJOs have a benefit of simplicity: no need to write an interface. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122961#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...