Changes Required for a Production Application
WebAuction is designed as a sample application. While it possesses the main components of a real-world production environment, it includes some simplifications.
Limiting Query Results
The WebAuction application uses simple entity bean finder methods to query the database. While these simple finders are acceptable in a prototype, they need refinement for a real application. For instance, the ItemBean includes a finder that returns all the items in a given category. On a real auction site, this could return hundreds—if not thousands—of rows. Obviously, a thousand items is too many to display on a Web page, and it is expensive to return this many items in a result set from the database.
A production ...
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