The term I usually use is a "role" for the name of the class.
One has to be careful with these objects or one can end up with a
process-oriented design.
Regards,
Don Bate
At 2:06 PM -0400 9/10/00, Laird Nelson wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dan Hinojosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> I've seen a lot of stupid crap in this mail list in the past week (virus
>> warnings, flames, and public thank yous) that I don't feel bad asking
>> this.
>
>You mean this isn't the weblogic support forum? :-) (Which can be found,
>for the benefit of this list's 38,000 Satyam etc. developers, at
>news://www4.weblogic.com/weblogic.developer.interest.ejb....)
>
>> What preference do you have as EJB Developers to name your stateless
>> session beans that interact with entity when there isn't one "verb" that
>> you can call your bean.
>
>I look for a noun (believe it or not) that describes a job function in the
>real world whose chief task is to shuffle things around. So while you may
>have Member entity beans, I typically use Registrar or something like that
>to describe the stateless session bean that shuffles Members around.
>Richard Monson-Haefel uses TravelAgent, for example, as an example of a
>stateless session bean that shuffles CruiseShips, Cabins and Tickets around.
>
>Cheers,
>Laird
>
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