An enterprise bean that represents persistent data maintained in a database. An entity bean can manage its own persistence or it can delegate this function to its container. An entity bean is identified by a primary key. If the container in which an entity bean is hosted crashes, the entity bean, its primary key, and any remote references survive the crash.
An Enterprise JavaBean which has the following characteristics. Represents data in the database. Is transactional. Allows shared access for any number of users. Can exist as longs as its data in a database. Can transparently survive crashes of the EJB server.
a data object, not a business process object
an object representation of persistent data that are maintained in a permanent data store, such as a database
an object that manages persistent data, potentially uses several dependent Java objects, and can be uniquely identified by a primary key
a persistent object that represents an item in a storage system such as a database system
a remote object that manages its data persistently through callback methods, which are defined in the javax
a specialized type of EJB that, within the Java world, generally correlates to a relational DBMS table and its access functions
A permanent EJB object that is durable beyond the duration of a session (as opposed to session beans that are not durable).
An EJB that is an object representation of a piece of persistent data.
An Entity Bean is a type of Enterprise JavaBean, a server-side Java EE component, that represents persistent data maintained in a database. An entity bean can manage its own persistence (Bean managed persistence) or can delegate this function to its EJB Container (Container managed persistence). An entity bean is identified by a primary key.
