1. A system to provide batch operation for container-managed components, comprising: a plurality of instances of a container-managed component; a database maintaining a table corresponding to the container-managed component; a batch of one or more SQL statements maintained in an object, wherein each of the one or more SQL statements is capable of performing one of inserting, updating, and deleting operations against the database; and said object capable of at least one of: generating an SQL statement based on the plurality of instances; inserting the SQL statement into the batch of the one or more SQL statements; and executing the batch against a plurality of entries in the table in the database; and a DTD file capable of defining one or more features of the batch.