<p> Hi, I am trying out stateful session beans for the first time on weblogic 6.0 server. I have just given simply System.out.println statements in ejbPassivate() and ejbActivate() methods. In the deployment descriptors i have given max-beans-in-free-pool(=2) and idle-timeout-seconds(=1second). And I am creating 3 instances of the ejb bean in a for loop so that passivation and activation should take place. But nothing is happening. It does not display me the system.out.println statements which I have written in the ejbPassivate() and ejbActivate(). What could be the problem? Can any one guide me? </p> <p> Thanks, Vipul </p>