[Springframework-developer] Passivating statefull session beans

[Tim M. <tec...@mo...>]

Hi,

I've just come across this and believe that some alterations may be 
needed to the AbstractSessionBean.

We are using JBoss 3.2.1.

When a stateful session bean is passivated in our code the following 
error appears:

12:11:39,611 WARN  [AbstractInstanceCache] failed to passivate, 
id=dnrbujgy-5
javax.ejb.EJBException: Could not passivate; failed to save state; 
CausedByExcep
tion is:
         org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory
         at 
org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager.passivate
Session(StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager.java:378)
         at

We make a call to loadBeanFactory() in ejbCreate() but there does not 
seem a way to clear the bean factory upon passivation because it is 
private. It's easy to called loadBeanFactory() once again at 
ejbActivate() but by that time the damage is done and the bean has 
probably been removed by the server due to the passivation error.

Any chance you guys could look at this and maybe add in a fix for M4 or 
let me know a suitable work around.

Many thanks,

Tim