quick question on ejbCreate

[Bob Walker Jr]

I have seen it mentioned in many places that signature of ejbCreate for a CMP entity bean should be the primary key type (confirmed in the specs also) but the actual return value in the method code should be null. I checked the specs (section 10.6.4) but it does not say anywhere that the return value should be null. How come
Where the hell are we getting this rule from?

[Kathy Sierra]

Howdy
It *is* in the spec, but the spec makes it *really* hard to find these things. On page 171, section 10.5.2 "Bean Provider's entity bean instance's view"
It says:
" The implementation of the Bean Provider's ejbCreate<method> methods should be coded to return a null."
cheers,
Kathy

[Bob Walker Jr]

Thanks a lot, Kathy. I was going nuts over this. I thought that everything about ejbCreate() would be there in 10.6.4 which is: "Responsibilities of Enterprise Bean Provide" : "ejbCreate<method> method". So basically to learn every thing about something, I need to read every line of the spec and then organize the content myself.
Kathy, I serious hope your book takes care of this

[Kathy Sierra]

I think that's the most challenging thing about the spec... some really important 'rules' show up in only one place, rather than redundantly everywhere they *should* be. So you can read a section that should have everything all summarized, but it will leave something out that appears only somewhere *else* Arrghh!
Cheers,
Kathy