Do I understand correctly that you are trying to find out what courses a
particular student is taking?
In that case, I would simply define a method getCourses in the Student
class.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Sauer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> You could use a class called Enrollment, which represents
> the relational join table between Students and Courses. The finder
> method goes in the EnrollmentHome. You're lucky, in this particular
> case such a class makes sense, because Enrollment has a real world
> meaning, in many other cases a 'join-class' like Enrollment doesn't
> make sense (from a modeling perspective)
>
> Frank Sauer
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> Subject: finders for non-dependent entities
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>
> Let's say you have to two entity beans representing a manay-to-many
> relationship in the database. In my case we have Courses and Students.
> Where
> is the best place to implement a "get courses by student"?
>
> I could add a finder to Course - .findByStudent(). However, this doesn't
> seem like the clear choice since Student isn't a dependent entity of
> Course.
> Would I be better off creating a Session bean that had a method
> .getCoursesByStudent and made the JDBC call directly?
>
> In the latter case, I could could just extract the data and not
> instantiate
> any Entity Beans - this seems to be the trend.
>
> Any comments?
>
>
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