public  void ejbActivate() throws EJBException 
{
		throw new IllegalStateException("ejbActivate must not be invoked on a stateless session bean");
}

 public  void ejbCreate() throws CreateException 
{
	                                                                 	 
		loadBeanFactory();
		onEjbCreate();
}

This implementation loads the BeanFactory. A BeansException thrown by loadBeanFactory will simply get propagated, as it is a runtime exception.

Don't override it (although it can't be made final): code your own initialization in onEjbCreate(), which is called when the BeanFactory is available.

Unfortunately we can't load the BeanFactory in setSessionContext(), as resource manager access isn't permitted there - but the BeanFactory may require it.

 public  void ejbPassivate() throws EJBException 
{
		throw new IllegalStateException("ejbPassivate must not be invoked on a stateless session bean");
}

 abstract protected  void onEjbCreate() throws CreateException
Subclasses must implement this method to do any initialization
they would otherwise have done in an ejbCreate() method.
In contrast to ejbCreate, the BeanFactory will have been loaded here.
The same restrictions apply to the work of this method as
to an ejbCreate() method.