Christian Bourque writes:
 > Hi !
 > 
 > I want my ejb to use an automatically generated primary key. So when i 
 > call create in the home interface, i dont want to pass in the primary 
 > key, i want the container to automatically fill this in (such as an 
 > auto-increment column in MS-SQL or a sequence in oracle).
 > 
 > Is there any way to make a CMP entity EJB use a automatic value as its 
 > primary key, so that in the create method you dont have to pass it the 
 > primary key value ?
 > 
 > If anyone has any idea I would really appreciate !

Hmmm. The closest I've come to this is to write an MBean which
generates keys from sequences in a database. Then in ejbCreate you
connect to the MBean and get a new PK from it...

Tom
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