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Reputation: 31

Difference between Entity bean and Entity class?

What are the differences between entity beans which are in the EJB 2.0 specification and entity classes which in the 3.0 specification?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3277

Answers (1)

Santosh Kumar Arjunan
Santosh Kumar Arjunan

Reputation: 3896

In EJB 2, entity was a bean meaning that it had to live in a container and need to be managed (similar to other beans, say stateful, stateless, message driven beans).

However in EBJ 3.x, entity is a POJO class - meaning that it can live outside container also.. plain java application can make use of entities as ORM layer with any providers supporting it..

Upvotes: 1

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