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								        What is a Stateful Session Bean?- Between the client and the session bean, the state of the conversation can be maintained using a stateful session bean. 
  - The instance variables contain a state only during the invocation by a client method. 
  - It implements ‘javax.ejb.SessionBean’ interface and is deployed with the declarative attribute ‘stateful’.
  - They have instance fields that can be initialized and modified by the client with each method invocation. 
  - The bean can use the conversational states as its business process methods.          
								          
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