This doesn't really have anything to do with jBoss as an application server,
but is more a philisophical question involving EJBs.
What is the basic architecture for handling objects which are owned by other
objects? Given the following example:
I have a department, and that department "owns" the employees to which it
has been assigned. Therefore, I create my standard entity bean for the
department.
Entity Bean: Department
I look up my home object, create my department EJB, it loads and everything
is fine. I now want to get a list of all the employees in my department. I
throw in a second entity bean.
Entity Bean: Employee
What is the best recommended method for accessing the employees?
Do I say sometyhing like: Enumeration employeeList =
Department.getEmployees(); In this case, is it OK to have one EJB look up
the home object on another and return the Enumeration returned by the find
method?
Or do I do something like:
Look up the Employee home object. Execute a findByDeparmentID method?
Having not done this before, I value your opinion.
Thx!
Wes
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Wes McKean
Director Platform Management
U.S. South Communications, Inc.
770-240-6114
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