In this article we will learn how to create a Stateless Session Bean in NetBeans 7.4. There is a screen cast video for this article on YouTube (Creating Sample Stateless Session Bean in NetBeans 7.4) Session beans are the part of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) which are based on RMI as basic foundation technology. Good Introduction to Enrerprise Java Beans its types and application is been provided by Oracle Inc on its site at J2EE Tutorial (PDF) A stateless session bean does not maintain a conversational state with the client. When a client invokes the methods of a stateless bean like Remote Method Invocation , the bean’s instance variables may contain a state specific to that client but only for the duration of the invocation. When the method is finished, the client-specific state should not be retained. Most Often Stateless Session beans are more scalable due to their stateless nature.It is to be noted that it is developers responsibility that he/she does not include any code