EJB does not currently provide for "static" style methods on homes, other
than finders, creaters...
I believe this is a future enhancement under consideration for EJB 2.0, but
my understanding is the spec reviewers are not supposed to comment on this
stuff yet. Maybe Sun will ;-)
-Chris.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chaganthi, Madhusudan R. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 11:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Adding methods to the EJB home interface.
>
> Steve
> Let me try to take a shot at this with my limited knowledge.
> I see you are talking about the EJBHome of Entity beans and not Session
> beans.
> It is possible with BMP since you do your own hacking.
> With CMP, I really doubt it.
> I would love to hear from the "GURUS" though.
> Regards
> Madhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Roth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Adding methods to the EJB home interface.
>
>
> Hi. I've been trying to track down whether EJB supports a certain
> expressiveness or not, but so far have been unable to find the answer.
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to add new class-level methods to the
> EJB
> Home Interface for a specifiec EJB type?
>
> I understand you can add instance-level (Remote interface) methods, but
> how
> can you add class-level (Home interface) methods? (like static methods)
>
> I'd like to add a new method to the Home Interface which returns another
> Type. I understand you can overload the Find and Create methods, but I'd
> like to add a totally new method. I'd like to call this method even
> before
> I have a instance of the type. That makes it difficult to put it in the
> Remote interface.
>
> For example, I'd like to do this:
>
>
> public interface PHome extends EJBHome
> {
> public P create( ... ) throws ...;
> public P findByPrimaryKey( PPK pk ) throws ...;
> public Enumeration findByName( ... ) throws ...;
>
> // new method-- can you do this?
> public Q getARelatedType( ) throws ...;
> }
>
>
> Thanks
> -Steve Roth, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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