A CMR question

[pkrishna]

I have an entity bean whose deployment descriptor is as below:


<display-name>PhoneBean</display-name>
<ejb-name>PhoneBean</ejb-name>
<local-home>PhoneLocalHome</local-home>
PhoneLocal
<ejb-class>PhoneBean</ejb-class>
<persistence-type>Container</persistence-type>
<prim-key-class>java.lang.Object</prim-key-class>
False
<cmp-version>2.x</cmp-version>
<abstract-schema-name>Phone</abstract-schema-name>
<cmp-field>
extension
<field-name>extension</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
countrycode
<field-name>countrycode</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
type
<field-name>type</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
areacode
<field-name>areacode</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
number
<field-name>number</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/local/Person</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type>
<local-home>PersonLocalHome</local-home>
PersonLocal
<ejb-link>listener.jar#PersonBean</ejb-link>
</ejb-local-ref>
<security-identity>

<use-caller-identity></use-caller-identity>
</security-identity>


The above bean does not have a <primkey-field> element. Is there a way to prevent JBoss from creating a primary key column in jbosscmp-jdbc.xml?

[vincentchun]

"The above bean does not have a <primkey-field> element. Is there a way to prevent JBoss from creating a primary key column in jbosscmp-jdbc.xml?"

No

JBoss needs PK and all entity bean must have "findByPrimaryKey" method. If you miss it, you cannot deploy your .jar / .ear successfully.

[pkrishna]

You have brought up an interesting point ie every entitybean should have a <primkey-field> element. The snippet of the ejb-jar file I had displayed in my initial post was part of enterprise techtips that Sun had in their web site. I have attached a ejb-jar.xml from Sun's techtips for August 2003. Look at the address and phone bean. They don't have <primkey-field>. You are right I was able to successfully deploy and execute the application in the techtip for July2003 only by modifying the ejb-jar.xml and the bean's home interface.