Why finder methods are not static?

[Deepak Gupta]

I am new to EJb and just started learning EJb . I just want to know that "Why finder methods are nonstatic?"
Can somebody help me out
Thanks
Deepak

[Ismail]

Finder methods are declared in interfaces. Interfaces cannot have static methods.

[Deepak Gupta]

Thanks for the reply
But In BMP , finder methods , in Entity bean class ,are non static . we can define all the finder methods as static.
then why do we not have static finder methods there??

[Kyle Brown]

Because the EJB spec leaves open the option of Entity inheritance, something that is not possible with static methods. For instance, in the WebSphere CMP implementation, a finder on a home can bring back a heterogenous collection of both the instances of the bean the home corresponds to and any superclasses of that bean.
Kyle

[hen fern]

Originally posted by Kyle Brown:
Because the EJB spec leaves open the option of Entity inheritance, something that is not possible with static methods. For instance, in the WebSphere CMP implementation, a finder on a home can bring back a heterogenous collection of both the instances of the bean the home corresponds to and any superclasses of that bean.
Kyle

Can you please elaborate on this?

[Kyle Brown]

This article elaborates on the way that it was done in VAJ and WebSphere 3.0/3.5, which is still very close to the way it's implemented in WAS 4.0 and WSAD.
Kyle
[ November 05, 2002: Message edited by: Kyle Brown ]