ejbPostCreate Method is it compulsory

[Rahul Mahindrakar]

Hi,
Page 124 of the EJB 1.1 specification states " for each ejbCreate(.. ) method the entity bean class must define a matching ejbPostCreate(... ) method . However when i am not defining a ejbPostCreate(.. ) method using the reference implementation things work fine.
Is there something that i am missing.

[Ganesh Natarajan]

hi,
It is not necessary. The container will automatically call ejbPostCreate() immediately after ejbCreate().

[Frank Lin]

Originally posted by Rahul Mahindrakar:
Hi,
Page 124 of the EJB 1.1 specification states " for each ejbCreate(.. ) method the entity bean class [b] must define a matching ejbPostCreate(... ) method . However when i am not defining a ejbPostCreate(.. ) method using the reference implementation things work fine.
Is there something that i am missing.
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ejbPostCreate() is a must when CMP is used. ejbCreate() is called BEFORE database insert operation. You need to use ejbPostCreate() to define operations, like set a flag, AFTER insert completes sucessfully. With BMP, you have the control over the insert, you can do that right after the JDBC call, within the ejbCreate().