Interface Managed

All Superinterfaces:
PrimeAmongSecondarySupertypes
All Known Subinterfaces:
ManagedComposite, ManagedEntity, ManagedMappedSuperclass
public interface Managed extends PrimeAmongSecondarySupertypes
Contract for classes (specifically, entities and components/embeddables) that are "managed". Developers can choose to either have their classes manually implement these interfaces, or Hibernate can enhance their classes to implement these interfaces via built-time or run-time enhancement.

The term managed is used in two senses:

  • A class is considered managed if it belongs to the persistence unit. This is represented by the class implementing Managed.
  • An instance is considered managed if it is associated with a persistence context. Any such association is represented by the state exposed via operations of this interface.