You have several choices with JBoss-3.2 and upper. To set it up you need to declare prim-key-class as java.lang.Object and no primkey-field. Also, ejbCreate method should return Object and findByPrimaryKey should return Object.
Then in jbosscmp-jdbc.xml you need to configure unknown-pk and entity-command elements. You have several choices: <!-- use of UUID key generator for unknown-pk --> <unknown-pk> <unknown-pk-class>java.lang.String</unknown-pk-class> <field-name>genfield</field-name> <column-name>genid</column-name> <jdbc-type>VARCHAR</jdbc-type> <sql-type>VARCHAR(32)</sql-type> </unknown-pk> <entity-command name="key-generator"/> <!-- database generated keys --> <unknown-pk> <unknown-pk-class>java.lang.Integer</unknown-pk-class> <column-name>genid</column-name> <jdbc-type>INTEGER</jdbc-type> <sql-type>INTEGER</sql-type> </unknown-pk> <entity-command name="pk-sql"> <!-- this sql is dummy, some sequence tables should used here --> <attribute name="pk-sql">SELECT MAX(genid)+1 FROM myjdbc_table</attribute> </entity-command> <!-- JDBC3.0 getGeneratedKeys --> <unknown-pk> <unknown-pk-class>java.lang.Integer</unknown-pk-class> <column-name>genid</column-name> <jdbc-type>INTEGER</jdbc-type> <sql-type>INTEGER(11)</sql-type> </unknown-pk> <entity-command name="get-generated-keys"/> <!-- this is mysql specific way under jdk1.3 --> <unknown-pk> <unknown-pk-class>java.lang.Integer</unknown-pk-class> <column-name>genid</column-name> <jdbc-type>INTEGER</jdbc-type> <sql-type>INTEGER(11)</sql-type> <auto-increment/> </unknown-pk> <entity-command name="mysql-get-generated-keys"/> Hope this helps. alex Monday, November 18, 2002, 5:01:52 PM, you wrote: TGR> Hi, TGR> I wanna create beans but I my primary keys are sequences in the database. TGR> How can I create a bean without having TGR> to determine this key value??? Is there any way to ask the container to TGR> create this sequence??? TGR> Thanks, TGR> Tânia Ramos TGR> Analista de Sistemas - NDS TGR> * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] TGR> Fóton® Informática e Serviços TGR> * Fone: (61) 3031 5087 -- Best regards, Alex Loubyansky ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user