Rick Hansen wrote:
>
> One obvious utility of ejb homes is the finder methods. If the container did
> it all we might end up with only findByPrimaryKey finders.
It would be worse than that. With no factory/home, the container
wouldn't be able to tell if we wanted a create or a find!
> Rick Hansen
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: David Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 2:03 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: A newbie question: why home interface is needed?
> >
> >
> >> The container will generate an implementation of your home
> >interface which
> >*is* an
> >> EJBObject factory.
> >
> >Thanks Chris. I understand that an implementation will be
> >generated. But why
> >the interface is needed at the first place. The container
> >should not have
> >problem to associate the remote interface to the bean object. Could the
> >client just ask the container to get a reference for a given remote
> >interface?
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bono, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 2:58 PM
> >Subject: Re: A newbie question: why home interface is needed?
> >
> >
> >> David,
> >>
> >> >>>But why the home interface is needed? Could
> >> >>>its "create" responsibility be owned by some sort of
> >factory object
> >that
> >> >>>represents the containers?
> >>
> >> The container will generate an implementation of your home
> >interface which
> >*is* an
> >> EJBObject factory.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 1:26 PM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: A newbie question: why home interface is needed?
> >>
> >>
> >> Could someone tell me why a remote interface and a home
> >interface has to
> >be
> >> created for each ejb bean? I understand that the remote
> >interface probably
> >> is required since it is undesirable to expose the bean class (with
> >> implementation) to the client. But why the home interface is
> >needed? Could
> >> its "create" responsibility be owned by some sort of factory
> >object that
> >> represents the containers? And the client just asks it for
> >the reference
> >to
> >> the bean with the remote interface name. It seems to me that it is
> >simpler.
> >> But I am sure that the home interface probably is required
> >and designed to
> >> work this way for some reasons that I don't know of. I would
> >appreciate
> >your
> >> thoughts on this.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
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