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3.4.6. Lifecycle callbacks
The lifecycle of singleton session beans is the simplest of all of the beans. Once they're
instantiated, they're not destroyed until the application terminates. Complexity in their life-
cycle comes into play only if there are dependencies between beans. During application de-
ployment, the container iterates over the singleton beans checking for dependencies. We'll
discuss dependency specification in a minute. In addition, a bean can also be marked to
auto-instantiate on application deployment. This enables business logic to auto-execute
when an application is started. Let's start by looking at the lifecycle in
figure 3.12
:
Figure 3.12. Lifecycle of singleton session beans
