Entity beans and Local interfaces

[alzamabar]

Hi, I developed a very simple entity bean and I used local interfaces, because I want to use a session bean facade to access the entity bean. During deployment on Jboss I get the following exception:
<!-- Exception begin -->
22:51:14,390 WARN [verifier] EJB spec violation:
Bean : UsersEJB
Section: 9.2.2
Warning: The entity bean class must not be defined as abstract.
22:51:14,390 WARN [verifier] EJB spec violation:
Bean : UsersEJB
Section: 9.4.7.1
Warning: The primkey-field element must name a public field in the bean implemen
tation class.
<!-- Exception end -->
I developed the implementation class as abstract because it contains some abstract getter and setter methods, according to the EJB 2.x specs. Is it possible to deploy and implementation class as an abstract class? Why I'm getting this error?

[Karthik Guru]

Just a guess, the DTD for ejb-jar.xml
s'd be different for EJB1.x and EJB2.x Are you by mistake referring to the EJB1.x DTD ?
Yes for EJB2.x, for CMP entity beans, they need to defined as abstract.

Originally posted by Marco Tedone:
Hi, I developed a very simple entity bean and I used local interfaces, because I want to use a session bean facade to access the entity bean. During deployment on Jboss I get the following exception:
<!-- Exception begin -->
22:51:14,390 WARN [verifier] EJB spec violation:
Bean : UsersEJB
Section: 9.2.2
Warning: The entity bean class must not be defined as abstract.
22:51:14,390 WARN [verifier] EJB spec violation:
Bean : UsersEJB
Section: 9.4.7.1
Warning: The primkey-field element must name a public field in the bean implemen
tation class.
<!-- Exception end -->
I developed the implementation class as abstract because it contains some abstract getter and setter methods, according to the EJB 2.x specs. Is it possible to deploy and implementation class as an abstract class? Why I'm getting this error?

[Edy Yu]

If you are using BMP for your entity bean, have can't define it as abstract class.

[alzamabar]

Originally posted by karthik Guru:
Just a guess, the DTD for ejb-jar.xml
s'd be different for EJB1.x and EJB2.x Are you by mistake referring to the EJB1.x DTD ?
Yes for EJB2.x, for CMP entity beans, they need to defined as abstract.

Actually it was a mispelling in the dtd definition. Thanks, Marco