On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Version: JBoss 2.0-FINAL
>
> I am having problems getting custom finders to work,
> both using the JAWS <finder> tag and defining an
> ejbFindXXX method. So I have two questions:
>
> 1. How do you write your own finder in an entity bean?
>
> MyEntityHome:
> public abstract Collection findBySomething(int i)
>
> MyEntityBean:
> public Collection ejbFindBySomething(int i){
> // Do something and return a Collection of primary
> // keys for all records that match this criteria
> }
Won't work in a CMP bean. I've just noticed in the last few days that if you
don't define a finder in jboss.xml, then it just returns an empty collection (!)
> 2. How do you configure a working JAWS finder?
>
> MyEntityHome:
> public abstract Collection findBySomething(int i)
>
> jaws.xml:
> <jaws>
> <enterprise-beans>
> <entity>
> <ejb-name>MyEntityBean</ejb-name>
> <finder>
> <name>findBySomething</name>
> <query>something < {0}</query>
This should cause a deployment error, I think. The left angle bracket is not a
legal character here, AFAIK. Could that be causing your problem? Another
thing I've heard is that you need something in the <order> tag.
Tom
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