I need to have one of the finder methods in the home interface of an entity bean do a search on the prefix of a VARCHAR column in the database. i.e. Something like this, where '?' is the text string the user entered and % is a wildcard. select object_id from object_table where object_name = '?%'; I could not find a way to get the Bean finder properties to treat this in the correct manner, so I wanted to make just this one finder method bean managed while everything else remained container managed. Is this possible? If not, then I need to implement many lines of code to convert this whole bean to bean management - that would really, really suck! --shawn
