Enterprise JavaBeans™ Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications

6.3. Entity Bean Test Client

Before integrating the Customer EJB into our Music Collection application, let's test it with an independent Java test client. The test client also helps show the role that the EJB container plays in managing entity beans. We've loaded several test records into our Customers database table (by accessing the database directly). Table 6.3 shows the initial test data.

Table 6.3. Initial Database Values for Customers Table

Customer ID	Name	Password	Email	Orders Pending
101	Catherine	Password101	[e-mail]	false
102	Maheu	Password102	[e-mail]	true
103	Cecile	Password103	[e-mail]	false
104	Chaval	Password104	[e-mail]	true
105	Levaque	Password105	[e-mail]	true

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