Collections in component interface

[Carlos Llona]

Hello, Sorry my english is poor but I try to explain.

In page 133 of HFEJB show us the "rules for the component interface".
And say that my method's arguments and return types must be serializabbe.....and collections of any of those.

what does it mean with collections?

Its about the interface java.util.Collection or his sons like Vector, ArrayList.

My doubt is because Collection not implemets Serializable and only some of his sons implements Serializable Like a Vector, but List dosn't.

I can have a method wiht that signature in my component interface

public java.util.Collection obtainAll (String s) thorws remoteException;


thanks a lot!!!

Carlos Llona

[Vitaliy Geraymovych]

It means that the collection or array should contain serializable elements. For example the collection of strings will be serializable because each element of the collection (string) is serializable by itself.

Check out page 67 in HFE.

Vitaliy

[Carlos Llona]

Thnaks a Lot

Then, is it possible use the java.util.Collection (or java.util.List) as a return type in one method of my component interface??

When I use java.util.Vector or java.util.ArrayList, everything is ok, but When I use java.util.Collection or java.util.List I've got a message saying that I can't use these interfaces.

Carlos Llona

[mini mehta]

Originally posted by Carlos Llona:
Thnaks a Lot

Then, is it possible use the java.util.Collection (or java.util.List) as a return type in one method of my component interface??

When I use java.util.Vector or java.util.ArrayList, everything is ok, but When I use java.util.Collection or java.util.List I've got a message saying that I can't use these interfaces.

Carlos Llona

In page 133 of HFEJB show us the "rules for the component interface".
And say that my method's arguments and return types must be serializabbe.....and collections of any of those.

Above means that even Collection should be serializable.

i.e even though the method signature may be

Collection getData()
{

return new ArrayList();
}

here the return Collection should be a Serializable Collection with serializable elements, so when you return the Collection object that object should be a serializable object i,e ArrayList or Vector or other.

[Vitaliy Geraymovych]

I am not sure if I understood everything correctly.

Collection is an interface. To use collection you would choose a class that implements collection (like Vector or HashSet, which implement Serializable interface.)

Are you saying that you cannot deploy your bean because methods returns java.util.Collection? or you have some compile error?

Could you post the error that you are getting?

Thanks,
Vitaliy

[Carlos Llona]

Sorry Vitaliy

I make a huge mistake, I use WSAD for running my beans. when I put a method in my component interface websphere shows me a warning that says something like that "the specifications says that all objects must implements Serializable". I thought that I coudn't deploy my beans, but I just made the test and all works fine , I suposse that the warning appears because Collecion doesn't implements Serializable.

Now it's all clear

And thanks a lot

byte!