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Types of Entity Persistence

Entity beans have two types of persistence: bean-managed persistence (BMP) and container-managed persistence (CMP). These two types are based on who is responsible for entity bean persistence bean provider or EJB provider.

Bean-Managed Persistence

With bean-managed persistence, the entity bean code that you write contains the calls that access the database. The data access can be coded into the entity bean class or encapsulated in a data access object that is part of the entity bean. Figure 8.3 depicts how bean-managed persistence works with database access.

Figure 8.3. Bean-managed persistence contains the calls that access the database.

For example, as shown in the following snippet, the StudentEJB method ejbCreate ...