- We have seen many of these in the source code examples thus far
- ejbLoad(), ejbStore(), ejbCreate(), etc.
- With the exception of the finders, all of these methods are concerned with the lifecycle of the bean
- What is the bean lifecycle?
- Basically, its the significant events from the moment an instance of the bean is created to the moment it is garbage collected
- Session beans and entity beans have different lifecycles
- We'll concentrate on entity beans as they are more interesting
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