public interface EntityPersistenceManager 
						extends ContainerPlugin
						{
						/**
						* Returns a new instance of the bean class or a subclass of the
						* bean class.
						*
						* @return the new instance
						*/
						Object createBeanClassInstance() throws Exception;
						
						/**
						* This method is called whenever an entity is to be created. The
						* persistence manager is responsible for calling the ejbCreate method
						* on the instance and to handle the results properly wrt the persistent
						* store.
						*
						* @param m the create method in the home interface that was
						* called
						* @param args any create parameters
						* @param instance the instance being used for this create call
						*/
						void createEntity(Method m,
						Object[] args,
						EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws Exception;
						
						/**
						* This method is called whenever an entity is to be created. The
						* persistence manager is responsible for calling the ejbPostCreate method
						* on the instance and to handle the results properly wrt the persistent
						* store.
						*
						* @param m the create method in the home interface that was
						* called
						* @param args any create parameters
						* @param instance the instance being used for this create call
						*/
						void postCreateEntity(Method m,
						Object[] args,
						EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws Exception;
						
						/**
						* This method is called when single entities are to be found. The
						* persistence manager must find out whether the wanted instance is
						* available in the persistence store, and if so it shall use the
						* ContainerInvoker plugin to create an EJBObject to the instance, which
						* is to be returned as result.
						*
						* @param finderMethod the find method in the home interface that was
						* called
						* @param args any finder parameters
						* @param instance the instance to use for the finder call
						* @return an EJBObject representing the found entity
						*/
						Object findEntity(Method finderMethod,
						Object[] args,
						EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws Exception;
						
						/**
						* This method is called when collections of entities are to be
						* found. The persistence manager must find out whether the wanted
						* instances are available in the persistence store, and if so it
						* shall use the ContainerInvoker plugin to create EJBObjects to
						* the instances, which are to be returned as result.
						*
						* @param finderMethod the find method in the home interface that was
						* called
						* @param args any finder parameters
						* @param instance the instance to use for the finder call
						* @return an EJBObject collection representing the found
						* entities
						*/
						Collection findEntities(Method finderMethod,
						Object[] args,
						EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws Exception;
						
						/**
						* This method is called when an entity shall be activated. The
						* persistence manager must call the ejbActivate method on the
						* instance.
						*
						* @param instance the instance to use for the activation
						*
						* @throws RemoteException thrown if some system exception occurs
						*/
						void activateEntity(EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws RemoteException;
						
						/**
						* This method is called whenever an entity shall be load from the
						* underlying storage. The persistence manager must load the state
						* from the underlying storage and then call ejbLoad on the
						* supplied instance.
						*
						* @param instance the instance to synchronize
						*
						* @throws RemoteException thrown if some system exception occurs
						*/
						void loadEntity(EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws RemoteException;
						
						/**
						* This method is used to determine if an entity should be stored.
						*
						* @param instance the instance to check
						* @return true, if the entity has been modified
						* @throws Exception thrown if some system exception occurs
						*/
						boolean isModified(EntityEnterpriseContext instance) throws Exception;
						
						/**
						* This method is called whenever an entity shall be stored to the
						* underlying storage. The persistence manager must call ejbStore
						* on the supplied instance and then store the state to the
						* underlying storage.
						*
						* @param instance the instance to synchronize
						*
						* @throws RemoteException thrown if some system exception occurs
						*/
						void storeEntity(EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws RemoteException;
						
						/**
						* This method is called when an entity shall be passivate. The
						* persistence manager must call the ejbPassivate method on the
						* instance.
						*
						* @param instance the instance to passivate
						*
						* @throws RemoteException thrown if some system exception occurs
						*/
						void passivateEntity(EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws RemoteException;
						
						/**
						* This method is called when an entity shall be removed from the
						* underlying storage. The persistence manager must call ejbRemove
						* on the instance and then remove its state from the underlying
						* storage.
						*
						* @param instance the instance to remove
						*
						* @throws RemoteException thrown if some system exception occurs
						* @throws RemoveException thrown if the instance could not be removed
						*/
						void removeEntity(EntityEnterpriseContext instance)
						throws RemoteException, RemoveException;
						}