Entity Beans

Entity Beans are data objects that represent the real-life objects on which Session Beans perform actions. Objects may include items such as accounts, employees, or inventory. An Entity Bean, like a Session Bean, consists of the remote, home, and bean classes. The client references the Entity Bean's home interface in order to create the Entity Bean remote object (essentially the bean's factory). The Entity Bean is exposed to the client with the remote interface, which the client uses to invoke the bean's methods. The implementation of the Entity Bean is done with the bean class.