Entity Engine Features*

• Provides simple modeling and use of relational business data

• No entity specific persistence code must be written or maintained

• Entities defined in a simple XML file

• With no entity specific code entities can be created, stored, removed, found, sorted, cached, etc through a single API

• Supports any database with a JDBC driver

• The delegator can be configured to use multiple data sources

• Automatically checks databases against entity definitions creating any missing tables or columns and warning of other differences

• Entity Engine can be easily bypassed with JDBC, SQLJ, etc. in the situations where the Entity Engine is not readily applicable