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Subject: Re: Dynamic finder method with CMP
Wade et al:
We had this same scenario and we chose to use a session bean for the dynamic
querying. We found that performance would be heavily impacted by using a
CMP entity bean (since you'd have one database hit for the initial find, and
Title: RE: Dynamic finder method with CMP
Wade et al:
We had this same scenario and we chose to use a session bean for the dynamic querying. We found that performance would be heavily impacted by using a CMP entity bean (since you'd have one database hit for the initial find, and then 1 hit
Personally I think this is one of the dark corners of the EJB
specification. Not so much because of the difference between BMP and
CMP beans, and not because of the underspecification of how to define
findByXXX in CMP beans, but because these finders don't belong in the
bean definition in the
I was also thinking of a limited scenario where a bean could have say
three container-managed finders , findByName(String name), findByAge(int
age) and findByNameAndAge(String name,int age). Along with these there
would be one bean-managed finder, searchCriteria(SearchCriteria sc)
which would
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From: Wade Catlyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 2:20 PM
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Subject: Re: Dynamic finder method with CMP
I was also thinking of a limited scenario where a bean could have say
three container-managed finders , findByName(String
Hi folks,
I wish to implement an entity bean that has a findBy method whose search
criteria is specified dynamically. This would be useful for operations
where a user can specify what criteria he wishes to search by. (e.g an
html form with several fields such as name, age, address, date... etc,
