You can code components to store state information in a remote database rather than in memory. Doing so offers several advantages, such as enabling failover and load balancing for stateful components, or allowing you to map relational data to a component interface using the EJB entity bean model. The EAServer persistent state model is based on standard EJB interfaces, but you can use it in components of other types. For more information, see these chapters:
The remainder of this chapter contains reference material that is useful in configuring stateful session components and entity components.
