Re: Oracle BC4J and EJBs

[Javier Borrajo]

BC4J (Business Components for Java) is delivered as wizards in JDevelopper. The docs says a lot of things like : it allows you to build component, reusable, flexible, and commercial stuffs. It is somewhere written that they can generate EJBs. And it states that it is an application framework which make easier to build app components. The point is that Oracle support itself is not able to tell us what is exactly in that package ! Does anyone of you know what can BC4J gives regarding EJB creation ? Is it an help tool for generating EJB Entity from a database ? What are the EJB-DB mapping possibilities/facilities provided by BC4J ? Does it come with Components library (Customers, Inventory or such ?) or with libraries making easier to build high level functionnalities ? Do you also know how much it depends on Oracle stuffs : can I reuse the generated code in any other App Server than Oracle's one ? Thanks for all the info.         Cyril PS : in one sentence. I am looking for tools which make EJB dev (and specially DB mapping) easier/shorter. You may find BC4J useful because it has lots of wizards for generating components that can be deployed as CORBA servers *or* EJB session beans. No entity benas supported, and I am not sad about it. The wizards also generate Swing UIs and JSP/servlets clients.   No prefabricated business components such as Theory Center or IBM San Francisco.   Regards       Javier Borrajo        www.tid.es