Though this is being discussed often in the forums, and have a
standard response that "No Sockets in EJB"... I would like
to have opinion of any one who have used EJBs as SOCKET CLIENTS
(Not Servers) for the applications. Can somebody share their
experience in such a usage pattern.

Actually, I have had the experience of using URLConnection within the
Session Beans to treat web as a datasource to acquire information
such as curreny conversion rates, weather information, entertainment
information and stuff like that and the application is successfully
operation for past one year.As we all know, under the covers,
URLConnection uses Client Socket.

So please share the experience of using raw TCP/IP Client Sockets
from within EJBs.