Configuration of the passivation period may be accomplished by tweaking the container configuration under standardjboss.xml or a deployed META-INF/jboss.xml. A couple of properties that should help with that would be the max-bean-age and the overager-period. Have a look at the container cache configuration section of the JBoss J2EE application server reference manual. Reviewing the EJB container section (4.3) of the manual should provide the information requested. Hope this helps. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046856#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...