Hello,
We will make the Counter classes open source and free to distribute
Regards,
Karl Avedal
"Joseph B. Ottinger" wrote:
> I don't know. But then again, this is an orion-list and it wasn't
> cross-posted to any other forum, so... :) :) :)
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Neville Burnell wrote:
>
> > Are the Counter classes free to distribute? (and preferably open source)
> > If not then using them will tie you to Orion.
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Neville Burnell
> > Business Manager Software
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mike Cannon-Brookes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, 12 May 2000 10:25 AM
> > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > Subject: RE: obtaining sequences portably for entity EJB
> > >
> > >
> > > I believe if you look, there's a class called CounterUtils
> > > that wraps all
> > > this nicely.
> > >
> > > Can't remember the usage, but offhand it's something like
> > >
> > > CounterUtils.getNextID(jndiLocation, beanname);
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mike
> > >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph B.
> > > Ottinger
> > > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 6:17 AM
> > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > Subject: obtaining sequences portably for entity EJB
> > >
> > >
> > > Since this is a common problem that ends up getting asked a
> > > lot, and there
> > > are few published good ways to go about it... it turns out orion has a
> > > file in the news app called "counter.jar" that does just
> > > this. Here's the
> > > quick-and-dirty on its use:
> > >
> > > 1) Add the counter.jar to the application.xml file as an ejb module.
> > >
> > > 2) Make sure that the ejb-jar.xml contains a reference to the Counter
> > > bean, which should look something like this:
> > >
> > > <ejb-ref>
> > > <description>The id counter for the
> > > entity</description>
> > > <ejb-ref-name>ejb/Counter</ejb-ref-name>
> > > <ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type>
> > > <home>com.evermind.ejb.CounterHome</home>
> > > <remote>com.evermind.ejb.Counter</remote>
> > > </ejb-ref>
> > >
> > > 3) In your EJB code, have this kind of sequence:
> > >
> > > public void ejbCreate() throws RemoteException, CreateException
> > > {
> > > try
> > > {
> > > CounterHome chome=(CounterHome)new
> > > InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/Counter");
> > > Counter ctr;
> > > try
> > > {
> > >
> > > ctr=chome.findByPrimaryKey("mybeannameid");
> > > }
> > > catch(FinderException fe)
> > > {
> > > ctr=chome.create("mybeannameid");
> > > }
> > > id=ctr.getNextID());
> > > }
> > > catch(NamingException ne)
> > > {
> > > throw new CreateException("NamingException:\nCould not"+
> > > " create EJB: "+ne.getMessage());
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > This will set id - a long - to the next available sequence.
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > http://cupid.suninternet.com/~joeo HOMES.COM Developer
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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> Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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