Package net.sf.mmm.util.entity.api

Provides the API for a entities.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Entity	This is the interface for an entity or business object.
EntityId	This is the interface for an ID that uniquely identifies an object of a particular type.
GenericEntity<ID>	This is the interface for a (persistent) entity, which is an object that is potentially stored in a persistent store (typically a database and via JPA).
MutableGenericEntity<ID>	This is the interface for a mutable GenericEntity adding setter methods.
MutableRevisionedEntity<ID>	This is the interface for a mutable RevisionedEntity.
PersistenceEntity<ID>	This is the interface to mark a RevisionedEntity that represents an entity of the persistence.
RevisionedEntity<ID>	This is the interface for a GenericEntity that is (potentially) revision-controlled.

Package net.sf.mmm.util.entity.api Description

Provides the API for a entities.

Entity-Util API

This package contains the API for entities. It aims to standardize the API without requiring specific dependencies (e.g. to JPA). The advanced support is therefore located in the separate module mmm-persistence while this API here may also be used by transfer objects for clients and other stuff where a dependency to JPA and mmm-persistence is NOT desired.