Originally posted by Paul Sturrock:
Session beans and Entity Beans have different purposes, they are not interchangeable. Entity Beans are an ORM technology, Session beans are more for business logic. So though you can access a data store from a session bean its primary purpose is not that.
When would you go for Entity Beans? Never. I'd recommend JPA instead.
Suganthi, be thankful you posted on this forum. Paul may have saved you from a fate worse than simple obsolescence. :-)