Introduction
An Entity Bean is an Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) that represents a persistent object in a relational database. JBoss provides two methods of entity bean persistence, Bean Managed Persistence (BMP) and Container-Managed Persistence (CMP). With BMP, the entity bean developer must implement all the persistence logic. With CMP, the application server manages entity bean persistence; the developer provides interfaces and configuration.
Entity JavaBeans that use container-managed persistence (CMP) are convenient, because they require so little custom code to achieve automatic persistence. But that convenience carries a price: beans using CMP are also ferociously complex to configure, and often difficult to debug.
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