This element is used to configure Stateful Session Beans:

• default-access-timeout: This attribute specifies the default time concurrent invocations on the same bean instance and will wait to acquire the instance lock. It can be overridden via the deployment descriptor or via the javax.ejb.AccessTimeout annotation.

• cache-ref: This attribute is used to set the default cache for non-clustered beans. It can be overridden by jboss-ejb3.xml, or via the org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.Cache annotation.

• clustered-cache-ref: This attribute is used to set the default cache for clustered beans.