During a discussion with a colleague today we considered a situation where it would be nice to have a method, defined in the bean class itself, which performs cleanup after an EJB instance is removed. For example, if A has 1-many relationship with B, and A has a persisted status value based on the minimum of one attribute on its collection of Bs, then when an instance of B is deleted, A needs to recompute its status -- after the B instance is deleted.
Of course, this "business" logic could be defined in a session bean method, of course, but the nature of the relationship between A and B is fundamental to their existence, so shouldn't it be coded in the entity bean classes themselves?
The natural name for such a method would be ejbPostRemove, for symmetry with the spec-defined ejbPostCreate.
Charles May
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