ejbCreate(String name) return value?

[dnoyeb]

What should I return from my CMP bean class? The home interfaces are returning the actual instance, but what does the bean return to the home interface?

I have Mastering EJB in which he returns a primary Key from his bean implementation class. Then at times I have seen null returned. Does the container expect me to return something here, since its not demanding anything and I am getting no compiling errors regardless of what I try.

public void ejbCreate(String name) {
}
or

public MyPK ejbCreate(String name) {
return new MyPK(somevalue);
}

which of these is proper for a CMP Entity bean?

[erik777]

It should be:

public MyPK ejbCreate(String name) {
return null;
}

[dnoyeb]

I found it now. Its a interesting thing that I cant get an explanation for though.

CMP returns a null PK
BMP returns the actual PK

Bizarre.