Why Stateless session beans?

Question

I was reading about stateless session bean and couldn\'t understand it\'s use.

Excerpt from sun tutorial below

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Answer 1

Stateless object will enable you to loosely couple itself from the client and thus allows you to scale out easily.

Stateless session beans (SLB) are server side (EJB) components which are used to abstract your business logic. Because of this very nature of stateless ness you can easily deploy your SLBs in a different container which is not running on top of the same JVM. And as per your requirement you can have one or more containers running these beans.