Hello, I would like to get an understanding what is the best practice with regard to initializing instance variables in the bean class of an BMP Entity bean. - ie. is it necessary before every ejbCreate() or ejbLoad() to initialize the variables and collections that contain dependant objects. The reason for the question is that with Weblogic, it seems as though that I can get away with out any initialization. On iPlanet, I find that I get dirty values and thus need to initialize the variable. If we do need to need initialize, then what is the best way to deal with dependant objects. Our thinking was that you could use the entity beans as way to cache the dependant objects. ie. Load them to start with, but then retrieved the object from the collection instead of going to the database each time. However, if you have to initialize them, then how can you get good performance with regard to the managing of dependant object. Thanks in advance. Tom _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
