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Creating EJB 3.0 Entity
Relationships
So far, we have discussed only the simple-case entity beans in which a single entity
bean is mapped to a single database table. No book on EJB 3.0 is complete without a
discussion of relationships between multiple entity beans with each bean mapped to
a different database table. Multiple entity beans and multiple database tables become
essential when it is not feasible to define all the entities in a single entity bean and a
single database table. In this chapter, we shall discuss an example of multiple entity
beans with relationships between them. We shall learn the following:
• Creating database tables
• Mapping the database tables to entity classes
• Creating a wrapper session bean
• Creating a client JSP for the entity bean application
• Testing the client
• Demonstrating the effect of modifying the fetch strategy
But, first we shall review the different metadata annotations provided for EJB 3.0
entity relationships.
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