> Exactly!  What's wrong with handing off your partially implemented
> domain, letting the consultant subclass some of the classes for
> white-box reuse and then GENERATE THE ENTITY BEANS using a tool?  From
> my reading of this list, it seems that many people feel that the best
> thing is for the Entity bean to wrapper the domain object anyway, so
> this would lend itself to tool use.  If your EJB server does not include
> one, then your group could create one without too much trouble.

Having to write a tool to generate my code tells me the model is broken.

> And then where EJB shines is for your group to create COMPONENTS that
> the consultants can use without subclassing, that might provide for
> common functionality that pops up.

This is fine, as long as it covers the majority of cases. However, it
is overshadowed by any fatal flaw of the model.

> The issues that you brought up exist in every component model.

Every component model fails to support inheritence?

tim.

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