13.5.3 Using EJB 2.x access intents
Access intents policies let you define, in a very flexible and powerful way, how relational data will be accessed if you use BMP or CMP entity beans.
Important: Although you can set access intents on a BMP, you are responsible for reading the access intent metadata from your code and applying the corresponding change to the isolation levels yourself by calling connection.setTransactionLevel(). The EJB container has no control over your persistence strategy, and therefore cannot perform the same tasks as it can for CMPs. Access intent data is valid in the WebSphere naming service for the time of the transaction. See the Information Center for more coding examples.