Abstract: A method, apparatus and program product manages application entitlement data by storing entitlement data received from a plurality of application providers. Inventory data associated with a networked computing device or an application executable on the networked computing device is monitored. Delivery of the entitlement data to the networked computing device is enabled according to the inventory data.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for processing entity beans in relational database environments. One embodiment provides a method for persisting data from an entity bean in a relational database. The entity bean has a plurality of attributes. At least a portion of the plurality of attributes is associated with one or more dependent value objects. The method comprises determining a dependent value object level of the entity bean defining mapped data attributes from a dependent value object of the plurality of attributes, mapping the mapped data attributes from the dependent value object into a plurality of columns of a row in a table of the relational database, and streaming all remaining attributes from the dependent value object to a separate column of the table.