PostCreate bug?!

[kevin111]

I am using Jboss 3.2. I have written some simple beans and I have found out that ejbPostCreate is not called after the corresponding ejbCreate before serving a client. My code flow is like this:

0. start a session bean
[the following are inside the session bean]
1. create a new entity bean using local interface
2. get a local reference to this bean using local home
3. prepare the data to send to a remote client
...

According to J2EE specification, the ejbPostCreate callback should be called by the time I get to step 2 above. But it was not according to my debugging messages.

Is this a bug or is it something I did wrong or didnt understand correctly?

Any help is appreciated.

[adrian.brock]

Show the code.

If this wasn't working CMR wouldn't be working.

Regards,
Adrian

[kevin111]

First of all, thanks a lot for trying to help. :)

After hours of struggle, I finally figured out what is the problem:

I am using CMPand using MySQL. the entity bean's DB table contains something like this:
id -- auto-increment id
name -- unique column.

It seems like there some problem using database auto generated id as the primary key. The sever log would look like:
Create: pk= null
...

Then I got all kinds of problem from this. Now I switched to use name as the primary key for CMP, then everything works as desired.

Once again, thanks for the help.

Kevin

[kevin111]

A follow-up question:

Is there a solution to my problem with id being the primary key? If possible, I would like to use it as primary key.