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- An Entity Bean is one of the two fundamentally different types of Enterprise Java Beans, which models business concepts that can be expressed as nouns.
- For example, an Entity Bean might represent a customer, a piece of equipment, an item in inventory, or even a place.
- In other words, Entity Beans model real world objects are usually persistent in some kind of database.
- An Entity Bean is an independent client and has a long life. It needs to maintain an identity for each specific instance. The other type of EJB is a Session Bean.
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