Title: Design - Passivation Strategy
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## Passivation Strategy

Sub-component of [Stateful SessionBean Container](design-stateful-sessionbean-container.html)


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## Definition

Used by the Stateful Container to passivate and activate stateful session
beans to a temporary storage.


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## Responsibilities
 * Store and retrieve instances

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## Related Classes
 * org.apache.openejb.core.stateful.PassivationStrategy

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## Implementations
 * [Random Access File Passivater](design-random-access-file-passivater.html)
 * [Simple Passivater](design-simple-passivater.html)