What Do Entity Beans Provide?
Through the use of the JDBC, I/O, XML, and other APIs, application components such as JSPs and servlets could persist information directly to a data store. However, Entity beans provide a layer of abstraction that can help with the following:
Reduce dependencies between application components and data store implementation
Concurrent read and write access to shared data by multiple clients
Accessible to multiple client types
Method-level object security
High scalability
Behind firewall, extra level of protection for data
Caching of data with in-memory copy or persistent store
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