Question: HFEJB p.400 : Don't map DirectorID column

[Steve Taiwan]

In p.400 of HFEJB, it said "we are not mapping the DirectorID column because we don't have a persistent CMP field for the DirectorID....That's where our CMR field comes in, but we don't map that to a database. Relationships happen by matching up two BEANS in the <relationships> part of the DD."
This doesn't make sense to me. Suppose, in CMP, we don't have a persistent DirectorID field, when invoking ejbCreate(...) to insert a new Movie row to database, this new Movie row can' refer back to Director Table to find out its Director. And then the relationship between Movie and Director becomes useless when more and more new Move rows are inserted into Database. Is that an obvious problem?
So I think we should make the DirectorID a persistent field, shouldn't we?
If the above explanation is not correct, does Container automatically find Primary Key and Foreign Key Constraints and does Container will automatically add Foreign Key, DirectorID, to Movie Table according the Primary Key of Director Table?
I'll appreciate for any response.

[C Chavan]

there is CMR field that maintains link to director and that is set in ejbPostCreate(). caller has to send the directorId value to ejbCreate() but it is not used there. CMR fields are set in ejbPostCreate() and thats where the code would be something like
// get initial context
// get director home
directorRemote = directorHome.findByPrimaryKey(directoryId)
now, user can call method on the EJB to get info about director through business methods defined in movie remote interface

[Steve Taiwan]

Dear C Chavan
Thank you for the reply. But I think I didn't make my question clear.
My Question is when we want to insert an "NEW" Movie row to Movie Table and we don't have a persistent DirectorID field in ejbCreate() to insert this "NEW" Movie row to database, this "NEW" Movie row can't refer back to Director Table to find out its Director.
I can understand
directorRemote = directorHome.findByPrimaryKey(directoryId)
But I can't understand we don't need persistent DirectorID field for "NEW" Movie row. Could you tell me more about it?

[Matthew Shalorne]

I'm intersted in this discussion. Hope I understand it. I am currently needing to put together a one-to-one relationship and need to understand the process if both beans need to have references to each other as they are created. I am imagining it would go something like this (create method of one ejb takes enough params to create both, the create method of the second takes a reference to the first and you uses a combination of create and post create to set up the persistent relationship):
bean 1 (name):

public String ejbCreate(String id, String name, String addrId, String address){
    setId(id);
    setName(name);
} 
public void ejbPostCreate(String id, String name, String addrId, String address){
    //call create on Address bean's home passing params and a ref to this bean's local component
    //use the ref returned by Address bean's home create if local or lookup local using returned ref getId to set Name bean's persistent relationship field
}
bean 2 Address:
public String ejbCreate(String id, String address, NameLocal name){
    setId(id);
    setAddress(address);
} 
public void ejbPostCreate(String id, String address, localName name){
    setName(name);
}
(of course CreateExceptions etc ...)
  

Will this work? Is this the way to do it? Is there a better way?
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Matthew