Part I Development Tasks and Tools
1. Setting Up a Development Environment
Part II Developing Applications and Application Components
6. Using the Java Persistence API
7. Developing Web Applications
8. Using Enterprise JavaBeans Technology
9. Using Container-Managed Persistence
The Mapping Deployment Descriptor File
Automatic Primary Key Generation
Fixed Length CHAR Primary Keys
Automatic Schema Generation for CMP
Automatic Database Schema Capture
Using the capture-schema Utility
Version Column Consistency Checking
Configuring Queries for 1.1 Finders
CMP Restrictions and Optimizations
Restrictions on Remote Interfaces
No Support for lock-when-loaded on Sybase
Set RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS to false on MSSQL
12. Developing Lifecycle Listeners
13. Developing OSGi-enabled Java EE Applications
Part III Using Services and APIs
14. Using the JDBC API for Database Access
15. Using the Transaction Service
16. Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface
GlassFish Server support for EJB 2.1 CMP beans includes:
Full support for the J2EE v1.4 specification’s CMP model. Extensive information on CMP is contained in chapters 10, 11, and 14 of the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, v2.1. This includes the following:
Support for commit options B and C for transactions. See Commit Options.
The primary key class must be a subclass of java.lang.Object. This ensures portability, and is noted because some vendors allow primitive types (such as int) to be used as the primary key class.
The GlassFish Server CMP implementation, which provides the following:
An Object/Relational (O/R) mapping tool that creates XML deployment descriptors for EJB JAR files that contain beans that use CMP.
Support for compound (multi-column) primary keys.
Support for sophisticated custom finder methods.
Standards-based query language (EJB QL).
CMP runtime support. See Configuring the CMP Resource.
GlassFish Server performance-related features, including the following:
Version column consistency checking
Relationship prefetching
Read-Only Beans
For details, see Performance-Related Features.