use static methods in any java class you find convenient. where necessary,
the static member variables are populated via jdbc. i see no advantage in
using ejb for this.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murali Krishna Devarakonda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 7:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Singleton, Bean-managed Entity Bean, to lookup (mostly)
> Read-only tables
>
> Hi,
> Will someone be kind enough to blow my idea to bits?
> Or tell me that it does make sense:~)
>
> I have several read-only tables such as:
> A. "States", "Countries", "ZipCodes", etc.
> B. "genres", "moods", etc.
> ... and so on.
>
> They are all Read-only for the most part. While modification of a)
> is more rare than that of b), it's conceivable.
> I have entity beans represented by a table in the database that
> have
> foreign keys pointing to tables
> in A., like "User"
> in B., like "Song"
>
> A form will need to provide the values from the Read-only tables
> as
> drop-down lists.
>
> The information in tables in A. and B., is frequently accessed,
> shared by several "clients", and may(although very rare) need to be
> modified.
> So, I'm thinking I can have a ROTables Entity Bean(for want of a
> better name:~), that's a singleton(created with a predetermined
> primary-key(say, int pk=0, and not allow any other primary key), and that
> supports methods like:
> getStates
> getCountries
> getZipCodes
> getGenres
> getMoods
>
> etc.
>
> Are there any problems in this design? Is there a Better way to do
> this?
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Regards,
> Murali Krishna Devarakonda
>
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