To bert bates about Head first EJB

[kundan varma]

Hi Bert
I was going through your Head First Book. In Entity bean mock exam session i have one confusion in ques 12 which says
Given CMP beans CustomerBean,OrderBean, and LineItemsBean with the following relationships:
CustomerBean(1) ---- OrderBean(n)
OrderBean(1) ----- LineItemsBean(n)
Which will return all orders that have line items?
The answer given are

B. SELECT DISTINCT OBJECT(o) FROM Order o,IN(o.lineItems)li

D. SELECT OBJECT(o) FROM Order o.

How can D be right because D will return even those orders taht have no line items??
Plz clarify if possible
Thanks
kundan

[Jef Cumps]

Option D will indeed return ALL orders. And since orders with lineitems are a subset of ALL orders, option D will return all orders having lineitems.

It's about the interpretation of the question, they didn't ask you which option would ONLY return orders having lineitems.

[Nileesha Bojjawar]

Thats a Tricky question.
So every word in the Question matters.

Thanks for letting us Know.

[Jef Cumps]

Yes, indeed, every word in the question matters ! But don't get afraid of the real exam, the questions are not made as tricky as can be, most of them are really clear and just test your knowledge, not your trick-awareness...

[kundan varma]

Yes you r right jeff , sometimes simple thing skip from the mind.
THanks
kundan