翻译文献对实体Bea的介绍.docVIP

外文原文 CHAPTER 7 Introduction to Entity Beans In Chapters 3–6, you learned how to code session beans—distributed components that represent business processes. But session beans are only half of what Enterprise JavaBeans has to offer. One of the key benefits of EJB is the power to create entity beans. Entity beans are persistent objects that can be stored in permanent storage. This means you can model your business’s fundamental, underlying data as entity beans. We’ll see exactly what this means in the pages to come. In this chapter, we’ll cover these topics: __ The basic concepts of persistence __ A definition of entity beans, from a programmer’s perspective __ The features that entity beans have to offer __ How entity beans compare with session beans __ Entity bean programming concepts Entity beans are an optional part of Enterprise JavaBeans 1.0. Even if your EJB container is compliant with EJB 1.0, the EJB container may not be able to handle entity beans. If you need entity beans, make sure you choose a container capable of deploying them. EJB 1.1, which is part of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), mandates entity bean support. This chapter is relatively theoretical, and it is meant to give you a deep foundation in entity bean programming concepts. For those of you with a traditional procedural programming background, entity beans can be a very tough topic to grasp. You may need to reread this chapter a few times to really understand how things work. Make sure you’ve read and understood the previous chapters in this book; our discussion of entity beans will build on the knowledge you’ve acquired so far. We’ll use these concepts with hands-on code in Chapters 8 and 9. Persistence Concepts Because entity beans are persistent objects, our discussion begins with a quick Look at Java Object Serialization When you work with Java objects, in many cases you would like to capture the state of the object you’re currently working with and save it to a permanent st