Hi, it's not serious, but could be a bug:
I build an entity bean, everything ok. Now i added a static field to the
home interface, like this (the purpose of the field does not matter here):
/** Static array of field templates */
public static final NMejbFieldDescription[] m_MyFields =
{
new NMejbFieldDescription("Child", NMejbFieldDescription.BEAN),
new NMejbFieldDescription("Name", NMejbFieldDescription.STRING),
new NMejbFieldDescription("Data", NMejbFieldDescription.BYTES),
new NMejbFieldDescription("Created", NMejbFieldDescription.DATETIME),
new NMejbFieldDescription("Number", NMejbFieldDescription.NUMBER)
};
This leads to the following error on deployment:
Auto-deploying Beans... Error compiling
file:/opt/java/orion/applications/BaseModule/Beans/: Illegal method
signature in de.netmedia.ejb.base.binarybean.NMejbBinaryHome, the method
must either be a create(...) or findXXX(...) method: static void
de.netmedia.ejb.base.binarybean.NMejbBinaryHome.<clinit>()
Orion/1.0rc2 (Internal Build 9) initialized
Looks as if the server checks the methods in the home interface on
conformity with the ejb spec and complains about a static initializer as
about any other method. Or is anywhere stated, that static initializers are
not allowed in home interfaces ?
Ah, and if i move the same static initializer into the remote interface
instead of the home, i get:
Auto-deploying Beans... Error compiling
file:/opt/java/orion/applications/BaseModule/Beans/: Method public void
<clinit>() not found in de.netmedia.ejb.base.binarybean.NMejbBinaryBean
Strange. To confuse me and you just a bit more, there is also another static
field in the home interface:
/** The home of this bean is <code>NMejbBinary</code>. */
public static final String JNDINAME="NMejbBinary";
This one is acceppted by orion (maybe static strings are subject of javac
optimizations so that no clinit is generated at all ?).
It's easy to work around all this, but i'd like to know, if this is a bug or
if it's intended to be this way (i did not study the spec again to find
something on this, in my memory however never saw something concerning
static initializers).
Best regards,
Jens Stutte
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