SFSB expiration can be configured by using the @StatefulTimeout annotation in the SFSB java source code or by specifying <stateful-timeout> in the ejb-jar.xml file. However, it can be only set on a per-bean basis.

There is no default stateful timeout and we do not have a way to configure the default stateful timeout globally. So, it is troublesome for users who have many stateful session beans and want to set the same stateful-timeout value for every bean.