On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:03:10 +0530, Shiv Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Section 9.4.2 of EJB 1.1 spec (Entity beans with CMP) :
>
> The ejbCreate(...) methods must be defined to return the primary key
> class type. The implementation of the ejbCreate(...) methods should be
> coded to return a null. The returned value is ignored by the
> Container.
>
>My question : If the container ignores the return value, why does the method
>prototype require a return type?
To allow CMP beans to be presented to the EJB container as though it was
an BMP bean by producing a BMP layer through inheritance. Since BMP
beans return values on ejbCreate the superclass CMP bean must also
return a value, although that value may be null. The BMP subclass can
extract the primary key from the CMP superclass and return it as a
primary key object.
/Rickard
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