Client view of advanced entity bean concepts
In this section, we look at the client view when dealing with relationships, inheritance, and custom finders.
Relationship programming
We have promoted some relationship-based methods to the component interface and added some additional finders to the home interfaces that provide us with additional business logic that we can expose to the customer.
Although we understand that behind the scenes these relationships exist and there were complex mappings to establish them, in reality, to the EJB clients, these CMR fields just look like collections of other EJBOjbect references.
Let us look at client programming for a 1:m relationship.
Traversing a “one” relationship
When looking at the Account-TransRecord ...
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