deploy the bean

[Soman Singh]

Hi All,
I have a form that has two fields.
I have the Entity Bean that gets the data for the fields.
Now if remove one of the fields from the form, where should I make the changes so that I need not deploy the bean again.
Thanks,
soman

[Lasse Koskela]

I have a form that has two fields.
I have the Entity Bean that gets the data for the fields.
Now if remove one of the fields from the form, where should I make the changes so that I need not deploy the bean again.

How about not changing anything? Just don't use all the methods that the entity bean provides.

[Soman Singh]

Hi Lasse,
The bean has not be deployed and thats fixed.
If its CMP Bean, then I can change the descriptor file by removing the <cmp-field> tag. What I mean is if I remove those tags from this file the bean shall still call the fields from the create(). Like I am not sure about the answer.

But if its is a BMP then I can comment or remove the ejbCreate method. But this has to be compiled and re-deployed again which I don't want.
So how should I proceed. I guess I am clear .. If not I shall explain again.
Thanks ..

[Soman Singh]

Ok something more ...
In the first instance I created the Bean and its has the ejbCreate().
Now if I remove a field the how should I do it ?? wether its bmp or cmp.
So in case, any changes made to the bean shall need a compilation and re-deplyment.
So my point was there should be no re-deployment.

[Lasse Koskela]

If you remove the cmp-field element for a field from your deployment descriptor, it is very likely that your appserver won't generate the concrete methods for you -- leading to a fatal error regarding your build process.
I can see two options:
1) Don't change anything but tell the "client" not to use a particular method
2) Change everything as even a partial (code) change would require redeployment