I have a bean for an Individual:
public IndividualPK ejbCreate( String forename,
String surname,
String department,
String administrator,
String controller)
throws CreateException
{
this.forename = forename;
this.middlename = "";
this.surname = surname;
this.department = department;
this.administrator = administrator;
this.budgetController = controller;
username = forename.substring(0,1) +
surname.substring(1);
passwd = username;
userCurrent = "Y";
return null;
}
with a primary key class defined as:
public class IndividualPK implements Serializable
{
public String username;
public IndividualPK(String key)
{
this.username = key;
}
public IndividualPK()
{
}
public String toString()
{
return username.toString();
}
public boolean equals(Object ind )
{
return ((IndividualPK)ind).username.equals(username);
}
}
and an ejb-jar:
Models an Individual
<ejb-name>Individual</ejb-name>
IndividualHome
Individual
<ejb-class>IndividualBean</ejb-class>
<persistence-type>Container</persistence-type>
<prim-key-class>java.lang.String</prim-key-class>
False
<cmp-field><field-name>forename</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>middlename</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>surname</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>username</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>department</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>administrator</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>budgetcontroller</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>passwd</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>usercurrent</field-name></cmp-field>
<primkey-field>username</primkey-field>
However when I try to deploy this to the container I get an error message:
The return type of ejbCreate must be the entity beans primary key type, ANY IDEAS?