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Design a J2EE application and the enterprise beans that it needs.Why and when to perform this task
There are two basic approaches to selecting tools for developing enterprise beans:
The following steps primarily support the second approach, development without an IDE.
Steps for this task
Note: Optionally, the primary-key class can be unknown. See unknown primary-key class for more information.
For more information on creating databases and database tables, consult your database documentation.
With EJB QL, you define finders in terms of CMP fields and container-managed relationships, as follows:
The following logic is required for each finder method (other than the findByPrimaryKey method) contained in the home interface of an entity bean with CMP:
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