I've been developing some EJB utility classes to help me with my work. They've been evolving into a package, so I decided to share them with the list and release them as Open Source. The package is available at http://www.simscomputing.com/products/etk/ This tool kit consists of EJB Collection and Relationship entity beans. You can put entity beans into the persistent Collections and retrieve them using an Iterator. You can use a ManyToMany relationship bean and avoid being forced to write your beans using bean-managed persistence and hand-coding SQL. It's not an O/R mapping tool. They're just entity beans, and you use them like any other bean. Included in the Collection beans are Collection, Set, and Map. They have similar interfaces to the Java 2 collections in the java.util package, but they're for EJB. Included in the Relationship beans are ManyToMany, OneToMany, and OneToOne. They help you manage your relationships and keep you away from writing bean-managed persistence code for at least one more day. Furthermore, they let you code your relatationship according to your OO model, not according to how the underlying relational databases forces you to code your model. I'd appreciate some criticism on this whole thing. It's still under development, but I've already begun using two of the beans, and so far, I find them convenient. I hope others find them useful too. cheers, david -- David Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sims Computing, Inc. www.simscomputing.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
