ummmm
if you only want the last name ... you need an entity bean with only the
last name in it?? You will have big problems if 2 people have the last
name, usually last name is not a very good candidate key.
I think maybe what you want to do here is not get a collection of entity
beans, but to just execute a query in a session bean and get all
(distinct?) last names (do you want an id too??) and put them as strings in
a list of some kind.
Finders get you a collection of entity beans, normally entity beans do not
have lazy loading of fields/columns... you might be able to do this with
ejb 2.0, but even there I doubt it is what you want.
david jencks
On 2001.09.26 14:04:50 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Howdy, How can I declare a findByLName() in jaws, I tried this.Like the
> docs
> chpt 6
> <entity>
> <ejb-name>ClassBean</ejb-name>
> ...
> <finder>
> <name>findByLName</name>
> <query>LNAME!=null</query>
> //What I want is for the collection to contain all lastNames from all
> records(I guess I need a wildcard here so It will return all)
> //Similar to a findAll() except returning only 1 column from the table.
> </finder> </entity>
> THANKS!!!
> Graham
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