Inheritance and Entity Beans
Inheritance is central in object-oriented design, but it’s a topic that, for the most part, is sidestepped by the EJB specification. It’s not that you’re prevented from using inheritance with your EJBs, but there are a few issues to consider when you do. The central question relates to the type of inheritance that you implement.
In an ideal world, you could seamlessly define a hierarchy of entity bean classes and corresponding home and component interface hierarchies. Here an entity bean and all its constituent parts could be declared to extend some other entity bean without any special consideration on your part. This resulting component inheritance would reflect what you typically do with regular Java classes by ...
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