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This artifact provides a single jar that contains all classes required to use remote Jakarta Enterprise Beans and Jakarta Messaging, including all dependencies. It is intended for use by those not using maven, maven users should just import the Jakarta Enterprise Beans and Jakarta Messaging BOM's instead (shaded JAR's cause lots of problems with maven, as it is very easy to inadvertently end up with different versions on classes on the class path).

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package javax.ejb;

/**
 * The EntityContext interface provides an instance with access to
 * the container-provided runtime context of an entity enterprise Bean
 * instance. The container passes the EntityContext interface to an entity
 * enterprise Bean instance after the instance has been created.
 * 
 * The EntityContext interface remains associated with the instance for the
 * lifetime of the instance. Note that the information that the instance
 * obtains using the EntityContext interface (such as the result of the
 * getPrimaryKey() method) may change, as the container assigns the instance
 * to different EJB objects during the instance's life cycle.
 */
public interface EntityContext extends EJBContext {

  /**
   * Obtain a reference to the EJB local object that is currently associated with the instance.
   *
   * An instance of an entity enterprise Bean can call this method only when the instance is associated
   * with an EJB local object identity, i.e. in the ejbActivate, ejbPassivate, ejbPostCreate, ejbRemove, ejbLoad,
   * ejbStore, and business methods.
   *
   * An instance can use this method, for example, when it wants to pass a reference to itself in a
   * method argument or result.
   *
   * @return The EJB local object currently associated with the instance.
   * @exception java.lang.IllegalStateException - if the instance invokes this method while the instance
   * is in a state that does not allow the instance to invoke this method, or if the instance does not have
   * a local interface.
   */
  public EJBLocalObject getEJBLocalObject() throws IllegalStateException;

  /**
   * Obtain a reference to the EJB object that is currently associated with the instance.
   *
   * An instance of an entity enterprise Bean can call this method only when the instance is associated
   * with an EJB object identity, i.e. in the ejbActivate, ejbPassivate, ejbPostCreate, ejbRemove, ejbLoad,
   * ejbStore, and business methods.
   *
   * An instance can use this method, for example, when it wants to pass a reference to itself in a method
   * argument or result.
   *
   * @return The EJB object currently associated with the instance.
   * @exception java.lang.IllegalStateException - Thrown if the instance invokes this method while the instance
   * is in a state that does not allow the instance to invoke this method, or if the instance does not have a
   * remote interface.
   */
  public EJBObject getEJBObject() throws IllegalStateException;

  /**
   * Obtain the primary key of the EJB object that is currently associated with this instance.
   *
   * An instance of an entity enterprise Bean can call this method only when the instance is associated
   * with an EJB object identity, i.e. in the ejbActivate, ejbPassivate, ejbPostCreate, ejbRemove, ejbLoad,
   * ejbStore, and business methods.
   *
   * Note: The result of this method is that same as the result of getEJBObject().getPrimaryKey().
   *
   * @return The primary key currently associated with the instance.
   * @exception java.lang.IllegalStateException - Thrown if the instance invokes this method while the
   * instance is in a state that does not allow the instance to invoke this method.
   */
  public Object getPrimaryKey() throws IllegalStateException;
}