Why a STATIC RESTRICTIONS in Seam-gen EntityQuery?

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All sessionbean lists generated by seam-gen provide an implementation of an EntityQuery class.

Why is the String[] of RESTRICTIONS marked as Static? as shown below:

package web.session;

import web.entity.user.*;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;
import org.jboss.seam.framework.EntityQuery;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Arrays;

@Name("userList")
public class UserList extends EntityQuery {

     private static final String[] RESTRICTIONS = {
               "lower(email) like concat(lower(#{userList.user.email}),'%')",
               "lower(password) like concat(lower(#{userList.user.password}),'%')",
               "lower(username) like concat(lower(#{userList.user.username}),'%')", };

     private User user = new User();

     @Override
     public String getEjbql() {
          return "select user from User user";
     }

     @Override
     public Integer getMaxResults() {
          return 25;
     }

     public User getUser() {
          return user;
     }

     @Override
     public List<String> getRestrictions() {
          return Arrays.asList(RESTRICTIONS);
     }

}
     


The only place currently reffering to this attribute is within the class itself (getRestrictions).
Or am I missing something?

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[boevink.boevinkp.xs4all.nl]

All sessionbean lists generated by seam-gen provide an implementation of an EntityQuery class.

Why is the String[] of RESTRICTIONS marked as Static? as shown below:

package web.session;


import web.entity.user.*;

import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;

import org.jboss.seam.framework.EntityQuery;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.Arrays;


@Name("userList")

public class UserList extends EntityQuery {


     private static final String[] RESTRICTIONS = {

               "lower(email) like concat(lower(#{userList.user.email}),'%')",

               "lower(password) like concat(lower(#{userList.user.password}),'%')",

               "lower(username) like concat(lower(#{userList.user.username}),'%')", };


     private User user = new User();


     @Override

     public String getEjbql() {

          return "select user from User user";

     }


     @Override

     public Integer getMaxResults() {

          return 25;

     }


     public User getUser() {

          return user;

     }


     @Override

     public List<String> getRestrictions() {

          return Arrays.asList(RESTRICTIONS);

     }


}

The only place currently reffering to this attribute is within the class itself (getRestrictions).
Or am I missing something?