ThreadLocal is not part of the Java EE programming model. It's much too low-level.
It's typically used by system-level code as part of the Java EE container itself, so it's not
something that is recommended. It's much better to use a portable, application-level
approach to acquire any resources you need. Container-managed EntityManagers were
designed with persistence context propagation in mind.
--ken
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