In CMP, you create an entity bean, say Customer entity bean. This maps to the Customer table and each instance of the entity bean maps to a record in the table. If you want to map the same entity bean to more than 1 table, you would have to use Container Managed Relationships which are not available in
EJB 1.1. In CMR, you can maintain a relationship between the Customer and related Orders in the Customer entity bean itself you can have a business method in Customer entity bean to return the details of the related Orders. You cannot do it in EJB 1.1 which is covered by
SCEA