Hi everyone, this shouldn't really be a matter of patterns but that's it, here it is anyway...
Basically I have the following users hierarchy: pubilc class User{ String username; String passwd; //...other attributes common to all the types } public class Customer extends User{ ... } public class Guest extends User{ ... } Persisted with OJB. the point is that i'm trying to build an EJB to give an as much unified as possible interface to these VOs; the problem is that until now I didn't come up with anything that satisfies me. I don't know if it's better to add an attribute like User.type, so that I can handle the subclasses in a sort of facade. The point is that at least with the getters I am forced to have getUser() getCustomer() getGuest() since they must return the proper type. I guess this is a common issue, so, any idea?! thanks all, villo View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3850425#3850425 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3850425 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user