BMP and DAO - what comes first

[Saha Kumar]

Hello All,

When using a DAO to persist an entity bean, do the DAO methods get called from a client, or does the DAO get used internally by the entity ejb?

Thanks in advance.

-Saha

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

They get used internally by the entity bean. The client still causes the BMP.

[Saha Kumar]

Hello Jeanne,

Thanks for the reply. So are you saying that a client (say stateless session bean), could have the following code to create and update a Customer? Only the Customer entity bean knows about DAO? Which method in entity bean contains the code to insert a customer record? Which to update?

createCustomer (data) {
Customer customer = customerHome.create(data);
customer.setStatus("new");
}

Thanks much in advance.

-Saha