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Interview Question: What is the difference between find and select methods in EJB?

By: Ash in Interview Tutorials on 2008-08-13  

Question:What is the difference between find and select methods in EJB?

Answer:

A select method can return a persistent field (or a collection thereof) of a related entity bean. A finder method can return only a local or remote interface (or a collection of interfaces).

Because it is not exposed in any of the local or remote interfaces, a select method cannot be invoked by a client. It can be invoked only by the methods implemented within the entity bean class. A select method is usually invoked by either a business or a home method.

A select method is defined in the entity bean class. For bean-managed persistence, a finder method is defined in the entity bean class, but for container-managed persistence it is not.

 

 

 

 





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