Webservice vs sessionContext

Dear all,

I have a stateful session bean and created a webservice for this bean.

Everything works fine, except that the bean instance is recreated when it's not called for 60 seconds... I have tried all kinds of timeout parameters on j2ee and server level, but they don't seem to have effect.

Does anyone have an idea how i can prevent that the bean is reinstantiated when it hasn't been called for 60 seconds via the webservice?

Kind regards,

J.