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Chapter 13

Object enhancements: Oracle9i adds inheritance, type evolution, and dynamic method dispatch to the capabilities of objects in the database.

Entity bean support: The Java Virtual Machine ( JVM) in Oracle9i supports the use of Java entity beans.

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