I thought the question was more along the lines of how
many entity bean *classes* have you seen ?
I have seen between ...... one ..... and 50.
//Nicholas
--- Ian McCallion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "bart.malfait" wrote:
> >
> > I'm curious to get an idea how big a project in
> terms of number
> > of entity EJB's practically is / can be.
> >
> > What is the maximum number of entity beans you
> ever encountered ?
> > More than 100 ? Which configuration (app. server,
> persistent storage,
> > OR-mapper, ...) ?
>
> Entity beans are considered to exist if the database
> record(s) that populate the
> bean exist. Therefore the number of entity beans is
> limited only by the number
> of records a database can handle - i.e. many
> millions. As to how many of those
> that can be instantiated at the same time, this is
> limited by the amount of
> memory in JVM(s) allocated to storing the entities.
> It's impossible to give a
> number but I'd say that for certain types of
> application (especially where the
> proportion of reads to writes is very high) it would
> make sense to allocate many
> megabytes of memory.
>
> > In other words, do you experience that current
> clustered application
> > servers really scale up to an complete and complex
> enterprise business?
> > (I'm not considering designs that only consist of
> session beans)
>
> I doubt any company has implemented a "complete and
> complex enterprise business"
> using only EJB but there are some pretty big EJB
> applications out there.
>
> HTH
>
> cheers... Ian
>
>
> Ian McCallion
> Alexis Systems Limited
> Romsey, UK
>
>
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