Hi,

this is an architectural question on combining EJB / Castor JDO and Value Objects... (I'm quite new to J2ee)

My idea was to :

1) Get a reference to a Castor jdo in my facade session ejb
2) Query the database for for a persistent object
3) Return it as a value object to the web tier

My first question is : could (sould) the returned value object (serilizable) be the same as the persistent object ?

(right now, I just set all values of the value object using the persistent object get methods, and return the value object) ?

Then, I've got the value object in the web tier. I render it on a html page. For now, that's fine.

But what if I must update the data ?
My session EJB is released after the web tier has queried the data. Then there can be a long time. Then, the web tier sends another query to update the data.
Inbetween, who knows what happened to the data in the database ? So this is a king of long transaction.

Does anyone have a tip on that ?
(maybe I should use an entity bean ?)

Thanks in advance,

Franck Routier