BMP and Data Source Mapping in WSAD 5.0?

[Arthur Leo]

I am writing a BMP bean to map to a DB2 table on OS/390. In ejbCreate and other methods in the BMP bean class, I have JDBC code to access the DB2 table.
WSAD 5.0 gives me only one compiler error: it complains that I don't have a mapping to a data source. My question: do I need to specify a data source through WSAD for the BMP bean? Do I configure the mapping in server perspective?
When I write this BMP bean, I followed IBM's recommendation, created a CMP bean first as the superclass for the BMP bean. I didn't do any mapping for that superclass CMP bean. Is the superclass CMP causing that compiler error?
I have a different CMP bean that works fine. Of course I have the data source mapping defined for that CMP bean, which maps to a different table.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Arthur

[Kyle Brown]

Yes, you must define a datasource for the superclass bean -- otherwise it won't know how to load/store the fields defined in the CMP superclass!
Doing that should fix your problem.
Kyle

[Arthur Leo]

Kyle,
Yes, the compiler error was that the superclass CMP bean and its attributes were not mapped to a data source. Giving the CMP bean mapping specification should fix the error.
Thank you!
Arthur