my design requires me to write a stateful session bean which will implement jms message listener. Teh stateful bean will bind to a queue and listen for messages. Is it correct to design so and is it implmentable?

Hi,
   You can implement stateful session bean to be synchronous message listener - my understanding.
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Fred

Hi!

From a quick look in the specification, I cannot find something saying "you should not" on this point.

However, to me it seems a bit strange and I havn't seen anything like this before. You should be aware for the concept of durable/non-durable when registring the message listener.

Also note that you may end up in a situation when two threads execure your EJB at the same time: Your normal client thread and the thread started by an incoming message.

/Tomas

Although java does not prevent you to have a session bean implementing messageLiListener, the J2EE does not allow multi threading in EJB. and the idea of EJB blocking waiting a message to arrive is not feasible. Look at it this way: EJBs are not guaranteed to exist between method calls depending on the container. If the been is not called for a while it might be passivated.

Read this Article:
http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0105_burgett/0105_burgett.html