Container Managed Persistence Java Pet Store ?

[jbossapprentice]

Im trying to deploy an entity bean as an abstract class Is it possible to code an entity bean as abstract on JBoss??

In the Java Pet Store we have a class AddressEJB which is defined as abstract

public abstract class AddressEJB implements EntityBean

when I try to deploy it I get the following error

[INFO,ContainerFactory] Deploying:file:/C:/A JBoss Installation/JBoss-2.4.10/tmp/deploy/blah-blah.jar
[ERROR,ContainerFactory]
Bean : AddressEJB
Section: 9.2.2
Warning: The entity bean class must not be defined as abstract.

[ERROR,ContainerFactory]
Bean : AddressEJB
Section: 9.2.2
Warning: The entity bean class must define a public constructor that takes no arguments.

Please Advise

Thanks

[dsundstrom]

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