i changed in the orinon/config/application.xml the following line: <orion-application> to <orion-application autocreate-tables="off"> and it seems to work. But this is propably the file where you switch it off for all applications. regards, Peter -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Kevin Handley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. August 2000 10:13 An: Orion-Interest Betreff: Re: Orion and CMP Dumb question but... I am new to orion and j2ee and don't understand how the container managed persistence maintains the sql used to update a database. I know I have to map the ejb member variables to the databas efields in the xml using the <cmp-field><field-name> descriptors, but how does this map to SQL? thanks for any help/advice. kevin Robert Krueger wrote: > > nothing stops you from writing the orion-ejb-jar.xml yourself. orion will > not touch your settings when the file is parsed augmented and rewritten. > > from my experience it's better to let orion write the file (with > autocreate-tables="off" so you don't get any junk in the db) and then > change the table and column names and redeploy. it's much less work. > > what we do is generate the orion-ejb-jar.xml files with the code generation > tool that also generates the ejb code and the db schema so it's no work at > all. > > regards, > > robert > > At 15:39 02.08.00 , Ratz, Peter wrote: > >Hello, > > > >i am new to orion and i am writing my first cmp bean. > >My bean "Customer" has attributes like name, street ... . > >Within my database (Oracle) the table name is "cust" and the column names > >are nam, str ... . > >I know that i can specify a mapping in orion-ejb-jar.xml. > >But this file is generated during deploying my app. > >How can i specify the mapping during assembling my app? > >I would like to set the table name and the field name mapping before > >deploying > >my ear-file. > > > >Thanks > > > >Peter > > (-) Robert Krüger > (-) SIGNAL 7 Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologie mbH > (-) Brüder-Knauß-Str. 79 - 64285 Darmstadt, > (-) Tel: 06151 665401, Fax: 06151 665373 > (-) [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.signal7.de