We have a review entity. This entity consists of review table and 3
"reference" tables. In the reference tables we keep information related to
the specific type of review. There can more than one reference record per
one review.
We think to represent this entity as an entity bean. We came up with
several ways to do that.
1. Represent this as 3 entity beans wrapped in Stateful Session Bean.
Entity Beans are container managed. There is an article in
JDJ(June 2000, page 126) that does not recommend to use CMP for entity bean
that has more than one table and several records.
2 The same as 1, but use bean managed persistence instead of CMP.
3. Represent it as one huge entity bean.
Disadvantage of this: Adding new review types or modifying
old types.
4. Not to use entity bean at all. Use a bunch of stateless bean calls.
Thanks in advance for suggestions
Dimitri Dogadin.
Britannica.com
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