Life cycle methods of Message Driven Beans

At the start of the App. Server/ application, EJB container creates a pool of MDB instances, so on request the create() methods wont be called.

11111) DOES NOT EXIST
a) setMessageDrivenContext() --> after getting the bean instance, sets context object to the bean, to access container level information.
b) ejbCreate() --> to load start up parameters before processing a request, like DB connection.

22222) READY --> onMessage()
a) ejbRemove() --> to remove/close environment variables like DB connection, ready for garbage collection.