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Specifying a CMP Entity Bean

Specifying a CMP Entity bean is identical to specifying a BMP Entity bean; it consists of defining the local-home interface and the local interface. This makes sense; after all, to the user of the bean, it should not matter whether the bean is implemented internally using CMP or BMP.

The Local-Home Interface

For completeness, Listing 7.2 is the local-home interface of the Job bean.

Listing 7.2. JobLocalHome Interface

1: package data; 2: 3: import java.rmi.*; 4: import java.util.*; 5: import javax.ejb.*; 6: 7: public interface JobLocalHome extends EJBLocalHome 8: { 9: JobLocal create (String ref, String customer) throws CreateException; 10: JobLocal findByPrimaryKey(JobPK key) throws FinderException; 11: Collection ...