2.5. Entity types

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The entity type describes the mapping between the actual persistable domain model object and a database table row.
To avoid any confusion with the annotation that marks a given entity type, the annotation will be further referred as `@Entity`.

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Throughout this chapter and thereafter, entity types will be simply referred as _entity_.

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