s the EntityBean methods to notify the entity
 bean instances of the instance's life cycle events.

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 Applications written to the EJB 3.0 and later APIs should use the facilities
 of the Java Persistence API (<code>javax.persistence</code>) to model
 persistent entities.

 <p><b>Note:</b> Support for entity beans is optional as of EJB 3.2.</div>
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