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Tool Support for Entity Beans

Entity beans don't usually contain business logic, so they're good candidates for auto-generation. This is just as well, as entity beans tend to contain a lot of code - for example in getter and setter methods. The deployment descriptors for EJB 2.0 CMP entities are also far too complex to hand-author reliably. Good tool support is vital to productivity if using entity beans. Several types of tools are available, from third parties and app server vendors. For example:

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There is a strong case that entity beans should never be hand authored. One argument in favor of using entity beans is the relatively good level of tool support for entity bean authoring.

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