[JBoss-user] Design question

[VASQUEZ_JASON]

All,

We often think of using Entity beans to represent rows or entities in a database, but not much else.  Is it a good idea to use an entity bean to represent entries in an LDAP directory?  I was thinking aboutu throwing together a BMP entity bean to do this.  It would always be in a read-only mode on this, and I'd like to be able to take advantage of the caching features that would be available for 'free' within the container.  I currently have a session bean in place that performs look ups and populates serializable data objects to return to the calling clients -- this could be simler if it could just be done via an entity bean.

-Jason