Re: Session & Entity EJBs.

[Frank Sauer]

Entity beans encapsulate the persistence logic so it doesn't have to be mixed in with your business logic   Entity beans are shared my multiple sessions, so cached data doesn't have to be retrieved multiple times   When using CMP, the container can manage the mapping to relational databases   However, to make things a bit more interesting, they are not always the right answer.... I'm sure you will find MANY discussions on this topic in the archives of this list . In short, they have a considerable amount of overhead, esp. the finder methods. For bulk loads and complicated queries to a relational database, you're probably better of with JDBC in a session bean.   Hope this helps,   Frank -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tarun Dewan Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Session & Entity EJBs. I have one question.     What are the benefits of accessing database through Entity Beans instead of  Session Beans?   Any ideas.     Thanks,   Tarun Dewan