Hello and thank you for reading. I am currently creating an EJB3 stateless session bean for a project. The bean loads the Apache Axis2 Web services library. The bean will be used to interact with a SOAP service and return various results to a web app. First of all, does that makes sense for a design? The problem I am seeing now is that the axis2 library takes a second to load for each instantiation. I create each axis2 client in the @PostConstruct of my bean. Each time a client request comes in, it has to load a new bean and it's pretty slow in creating the client. I'd like to be able to pre-load the beans in a pool and to draw from that. Is there some way to set a minimum bean size pool? Any ideas as to how I can improve this process? Thanks! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4167050#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...