> When creating an entity bean is there a good way to check whether
> the bean already exists in the database, instead of catching a duplicate
> record exception.
> I know this can be done by retrieving all the entity beans and
> comparing primary keys for a match. But is there a better alternative
> which is less performance intensive.
What is wrong with a findByPrimaryKey() call?
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