It Seams to me there are two obvious ways to do a very common task. For a Seam + EJB 3.0 based application. Scenario: Need to maintain state between requests. Solution 1: use statefull session beans and store into instance variables Solution 2: use stateless session beans and use @In and @Out to store into Seam managed context variables Which way is best? What is more expensive? bijection or stateful bean management It is well understood that SFSBs require more resources than SLSBs but now were are comparing SFSBs to bijection Comments? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4087425#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...