Benjamin,
I don't think my last reply went through.
You can in effect have your beans be abstract.
Abstract base class bean :
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package com.benjamin;
public class ABCBean implements EntityBean {
// all your base behaviour methods
// abstract method
abstract public Collection getSpecificData();
}
Concrete subclasses :
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package com.benjamin;
public class ConcreteLDAPBean extends ABCBean {
public Collection getSpecificData() {
// goes to LDAP for data
}
}
package com.benjamin;
public class ConcreteRDBMSBean extends ABCBean {
public Collection getSpecificData() {
// goes to RDBMS for data
}
}
Then in ejb-jar.xml specify the bean-class as the concrete subclass.
ejb-class>com.benjamin.ConcreteLDAPBean</ejb-class>
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Broll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 1:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AW: Cannot inherit methods ... ?
> Now since I don't want this bean to be created (because this would create
> invalid data in the database as well) I need a possibility to declare the
> bean abstract. Do you have this possibility with EJB?
>
Well, as a research showed you must not declare an Entity Bean abstract. But
how can I solve this issue if I cannot declare the class abstract? If I
defined it as an interface, I would have to duplicate the behaviour in every
bean implementing the interface ... suggestions?
.bbr
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