Configuring passivation parameters in JBoss 5.0.0.GA

One gotcha I came across was configuring passivation parameters in lab 5 of Chapter 2. There does not appear a way to do this in the administrator console. Instead you use the JBoss specific CacheConfig annotation in your stateful session bean as follows:

@Stateful

@CacheConfig(maxSize=2, idleTimeoutSeconds=15) // JBoss specific annotation

public class ShoppingCartBean implements ShoppingCart {

The default values are

maxSize=100000, idleTimeoutSeconds=300

Alternatively you can edit the ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml file in JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy directory. This will apply to all stateful session beans in the deployment.