Folks, I have 2 entity beans: Organisation and Contact. Both use BMP (I prefer CMP but have no choice in the matter). An Org can have many Contacts. Having read the Sun tutorial (http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/doc/BMP3.html#63324) and Kyle Brown's excellent paper on Session Bean facades (www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0106_brown/sessionfacades.h tml) I am still slightly unsure on how to model it. Should the Contact primary keys be retrieved by the Organisation Entity Bean as described in the Sun tutorial? i.e. The Organisation Entity Bean is aware of the Contact Entity Bean and accesses it. Or should an Object Factory handle this relationship, leaving the Organisation Entity Bean unaware of the Contact Entity Bean? Or doesn't it matter? 2. Should the Organisation Value Object contain only the primary keys of the contained Contacts, leaving the client to retrieve the Contact Value Object when it sees fit? Or should the Organisation Value Object contain instances of Contact Value Objects, presumably constructed by the Object Factory? Any recommendations gratefully received.... Cheers - Adam =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
