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<div class="block">Defines the values of the <code>jakarta.persistence.lock.scope</code>
 property for pessimistic locking.  This property may be passed as
 an argument to the methods of the <a href="EntityManager.html" title="interface in jakarta.persistence"><code>EntityManager</code></a>,
 <a href="Query.html" title="interface in jakarta.persistence"><code>Query</code></a>, and <a href="TypedQuery.html" title="interface in jakarta.persistence"><code>TypedQuery</code></a> interfaces that
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