When we initilly started to develop with EJB, we used Pramati Studio to
generate our BMP Entity beans. Points to a database, you select the table
and field, and it generates all of the sql code and related files. Very
nice tool, but had a quirky interface at times.(But save a huge amount of
time when generating BMP enity beans). Now, we usually code our EJB's by
hand, but use some tools to help the process out. My favorite tool is the
EJBDoclet put out by Rikard Oberg, you can get it a www.dreambean.com. It
easily integrates with Ant, and saves us a ton of time and typos. It uses
the doclet technology to allow us to simply insert a couple of comment tags
in the Bean itself, and it will autogenerate the corresponding Remote and
Home interfaces, as well as the ejb-jar.xml. We have extended it to
generate some utility classes we use for access to the EJB's too. Check it
out, it is pretty sweet(and free, and opensource)
James Birchfield
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