Why doesn't somebody put something here?? '''OK -- JbRainsberger''' ---- ''Bean-Managed Persistence'' A BMP entity bean should delegate all its real work to a data access object -- an object that performs all the necessary JDBC calls. The BMP entity bean retrieves its primary key from the EjbContext and passes it to the DataAccessObject as a parameter. ''Container-Managed Persistence'' No design required; just good names. ---- See EjbRoadmap and CategoryEjb