Here is a paragraph from the blueprints document
Before
EJB 2.0 existed, a common strategy for composite entity implementations was to use a Remote Entity Bean for the parent and use
Java objects instead of remote entity beans for the dependent objects in a parent-child relationship. This also meant that the parent usually used Bean-managed persistence so it had to write the code to manage the relationships to the other objects also. But with the introduction of local entity beans in EJB 2.0, the strategy of using local entity beans to model fine-grained entities and dependent objects is recommended. An additional benefit of this strategy is that since all the objects in this strategy are Entity beans, you can efficiently use container-managed persistence and avoid writing code to manage the relationships.
My question is can I use CMP Entity beans with dependant objects also being CMP Entity beans with the EJBS being distaributed ( not co-loacted with the web tier), so can you have CMR relationships defined in a distributed environmnet between parent and dependant EJBs? When the blueprints recommends 'using local entity beans to model fine-grained entities and dependent objects' , does it mean that the parent and dependants are local to each other or do all the EJBs have to be local to the web container components that is calling the parent EJB?
Thanks
