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								        What is stateless session bean?- A stateless session bean is an enterprise bean that does not maintain conversational state specific to a client session.
  - It is an EJB component that implements ‘javax.ejb.SessionBean’ interface.
  - The stateless session beans carry equal value for all the instances due to which a container can assign a bean to any client making it very scalable.
  - There is no instance state. The business methods on a stateless session beans are like procedural applications or static methods, so all the data needed to execute the method is provided by the method arguments.
  - Stateless session beans are very lightweight and fast.Typically an application requires less number of stateless beans compared to stateful beans.       
								          
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