public int ejbCreate() throws javax.ejb.CreateException

[Scott H. Kao]

Hi all,
Why is this ejbCreate method considered illegal in the CMP entity bean?

public int ejbCreate() throws javax.ejb.CreateException
{
...
}

extracted from Q.5 of HFEJB Pg. 363.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
--Scott

[Fernando Matias Valadao]

I suppose it's because the primary key can't be "int" or any other primitive type, but I'm not sure about this. It should have been declarad "Integer" or any other wrapper type.
Can anyone confirm this or give us another reason?
Thanks.

[Leena Diwan]

It should be Integer I think. Also by the end of ejbCreate() the primary key should be ready by taking as parameters from the ejbCreate() method. So no-arg create() or ejbCreate() consequently aint the ones for the entity beans.

Regards,
Leena

[Keerthi P]

Primary keys should be of type java.lang.Object (and of course RMI-IIOP compatible). The getPrimaryKey() methods in EntityContext and EJBObject interfaces return an object of type java.lang.Object. They do not return primitives. Also the <prim-key-class> tag in the deployment descriptor indicates that primary keys are objects.
[ February 12, 2005: Message edited by: Keerthi P ]

[Binoj Viswanathan]

Hi,
The PK can't b a primitive type. U cn use the wrapper classes, instead. ie, you can use Integer as the PK class, but not int.
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The PK must contain all info to find an entity within the persistent data store. To du this, it must :
String or Wrapper classes of primitives

Or

b any legal type in RMI/IIOP other than primitive data type. In other words, it must be serializable.

provide a hashcode() and equals() method.

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thanx/binoj

[Binoj Viswanathan]

hi,
pls ignore my earlier msg.

The PK can't b a primitive type. U cn use the wrapper classes, instead. ie, you can use Integer as the PK class, but not int.
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The PK must contain all info to find an entity within the persistent data store. To du this, it must :


(1) b any legal type in RMI/IIOP other than primitive data type. In other words, it must be serializable.
(2) provide proper implementation of hashcode() and equals() method.
(eg. String or Wrapper classes of primitives- by default they implement Srializable intf and override hashcode() and equals() methods of Object class)
for custom classes as PK(for compound PKs), u have 2 conform 2 abv two rules.


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thanx/binoj

[Scott H. Kao]

Hi All,
Thanks for your provided info!
I've got a better understanding of it now.

Regards,
--Scott