Section 6.4.1 of the spec says:
"An instance may hold EJB object references to other EJB objects (sessions
or entities). When the container passivates the instance after
ejbPassivate, it must store the EJB ob-ject references with the passivated
instance, and reconstruct these object references when it loads the
instances state before ejbActivate. "
This is in the section dealing with session beans.
Is this statement true only of session beans, or is it true of both
session and entity beans? Entity beans do, after all, get passivated. Of
course, the semantics of passivation for entity beans are different -- a
passivated entity bean loses its identity, whereas a passivated session
bean retains its identity. It seems a bit of a conceptual disjoint,
though, to provide this handy feature for session beans but not for entity
beans.
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