Does ejb stateless class has to be public?

Question

Can @Stateless class have different modifiers than public? In documentation I have only found constraints of constructor/methods visibility, but nothing interesting about class level access.

Anchylose

Well, documentation has a lack of this information, but i know it works as default too. – Exit

Answer 1

According to ejb3-1 specification:

4.9.2 Session Bean Class

The following are the requirements for the session bean class:

• The class must be defined as public, must not be final, and must not be abstract. The class must be a top level class

Chelsiechelsy

That actually contradicts a little bit with information from @Bruno Frano – Anchylose

no, it doesn't: "works as default too" just means it works now (on some containers) but is not guaranteed to work in future. – Boldfaced