>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Monson-Haefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> It's not for the specification to say whether or not ordering takes place
> at the resource or in the EJB container. That's up to the vendor.
Indeed!
> The point is: The ORDER BY clause is needed so that the bean developer
> and clearly communicate the ordering requirements to the EJB container's
> deployment tools.
Yes!
> I think that most EJB vendors will push ordering down to the resource,
> but whether they do that or not isn't important to the
> specification.
Right, that will be a "quality of implementation" issue.
> What's important is that EJB QL provide an ORDER BY clause, because
> ordering is fundamental to the query paradigm, and because developers
> will need it.
I strongly concur.
Rock on,
John
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