session bean time out exception

[Radar31]

My client is accessing a stateful session bean on a websphere server, a create is performed. After a period of time when i try to access the bean again, i get the following time out exception.

Stateful bean StatefulBeanO(BeanId(ProfilingSystem#
ProfilingSystem.jar#ApplicationSession, eddec91a8f), state = METHOD_READY) timed
out
at com.ibm.ejs.container.activator.StatefulSessionActivationStrategy.atA
ctivate(StatefulSessionActivationStrategy.java:157)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.activator.Activator.activateBean(Activator.java
:171)
at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSContainer.preInvoke(EJSContainer.java:2152)
at Backend.business.application.EJSRemoteStatefulApplicationSessionRemot
e.findAll(EJSRemoteStatefulApplicationSessionRemote.java:96)
at Backend.business.application._EJSRemoteStatefulApplicationSessionRemo
te_Tie._invoke(_EJSRemoteStatefulApplicationSessionRemote_Tie.java:193)
at com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.ExtendedServerDelegate.dispatch(ExtendedServerDele
gate.java:506)
at com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.ORB.process(ORB.java:2294)
at com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.OrbWorker.run(OrbWorker.java:185)
at com.ibm.ejs.oa.pool.ThreadPool$PooledWorker.run(ThreadPool.java:95)
at com.ibm.ws.util.CachedThread.run(ThreadPool.java:122)

Is the session bean passivated? if so why can't i access the bean again. My bean is container managed.

 

[wushutwist]

Stateful Session Beans have a timeout associated with them that can be configured in the vender deployment descriptor. Any access past this time limit will result in errors like what you describe. The concept is very similar to the session timeout in a Servlet Session object.