Hi,
Have you look at Middlegen.  AFAIK, it creates base entity bean from a
database schema which looks like what you want.  I mean a quick entity
engine.  I think it will handle pk field automatically plus
sql-type/java-type.  The only thing that he can not know is R/W/RW type.
Regards,
Vincent

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf 
> Of Andreas Schaefer
> Sent: lundi 4 mars 2002 22:46
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Xdoclet-devel] Add-on to CMP Entity-Beans for JBoss
> 
> 
> Hi Geeks
> 
> I am tired of writing all the abstract getter/setter
> methods for the CMP Entity Beans in XDoclet
> but on the other hand I like that the Entity Bean
> source is the base and therefore you can add
> code as you like (opposite to other generation
> tools).
> 
> To solve that problem I came up with this
> solution:
> 1) The Entity Bean inherite from a class which
>     is generated which in turn can extends any
>     other class.
> 2) adding a new tag:
> @jboss:data-field
>     name="<Name of the Attribute(s)>"
>     description="<Description of these attribute(s)>"
>     type="R|W|RW"
>     class="<full qualified data type>"
>     column-name="<name of table attribute(s)>"
>     is-pk="true|false"
> 
> More descriptions:
> NAME can contain a list of attributes which shares the
> same settings for description, type, class and is-pk. 
> DESCRIPTION is optional TYPE default is RW. The meaning is 
> that R generates only a getter method, W generates only a 
> setter emthod and RW both. CLASS is the full qualified data 
> type class name which can also be a basic data type (int, 
> float etc.) COLUMN-NAME contains a list of table attribute 
> names which must match the NAME list and can be omitted which 
> means that is contains the same names as in NAME IS-PK 
> default is false. If set to true the attribute(s) are part of the PK.
> 
> The only thing the coder must be aware is that he has to 
> extends its Entity Bean from the "to be generated class".
> 
> An Entity Bean would look like this:
> 
> /**
>  * @ejb:bean name="test/Manager"
>  *           display-name="Manager working on projects to 
> support clients"
>  *           type="CMP"
>  *           jndi-name="ejb/test/Manager"
>  *
>  * @jboss:data-field name="Id"
>  *                             class="int"
>  *                             is-pk="true"
>  *
> 
>  * @jboss:data-field name="FirstName,LastName,Address,City"
>  *                             class="java.lang.String"
>  *
> column-name="First_Name,Last_Name,Address,City"
>  *
> 
>  * @jboss:data-field name="CreationDate"
>  *                             type="R"
>  *                             class="java.sql.Date"
>  *                             column-name="Creation_Date"
>  *
>  * @ejb:transaction type="Required"
>  *
>  * @jboss:table-name table-name="Manager"
>  *
>  * @jboss:create-table create="true"
>  *
>  * @jboss:remove-table remove="true"
>  **/
> public abstract class ManagerBean
>    implements ManagerBaseBean
> {
> 
> Now the ManagerBaseBean will contain the setter/getter method 
> for attribute Id, FirstName,LastName,Address,Citty and the 
> getter method for CreationDate and the protected member variables.
> 
> This makes the creation of CMP Entity Beans pretty easy and 
> also easy to change because you don't have to go over many 
> lines of code to figure out what attributes you have.
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> Have fun
> 
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> Andreas Schaefer
> Senior Consultant
> JBoss Group, LLC
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> 
> 
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