com.bankframe.ejb.bmp
Interface EBMPEntity

All Superinterfaces:

EEntity, java.io.Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

EBMPMasterEntity

All Known Implementing Classes:

AccountBMPBean, AddressBMPBean, CustomerBMPBean

public interface EBMPEntity

extends EEntity

This interface defines the methods that all Eontec Bean Managed Persistence Entity beans must implement.

Author:

ETU

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.bankframe.ejb.EEntity

serialVersionUID

Method Summary

EPrimaryKey	createPrimaryKey(DataPacket dp) This method creates a primary key instance from the information in the DataPacket.
java.lang.String	getEntityName() This method gets a String that uniquely identifies this Entity Bean.
EPersister	getPersister() This method gets an instance of the Persister class that is used for persisting this.
EPrimaryKey	getPrimaryKey() This method gets a primary key that uniquely identifies this Entity Bean instance.
void	populate(DataPacket dp) This method populates the attributes of the Entity Bean with the information in the DataPacket.

Methods inherited from interface com.bankframe.ejb.EEntity

toDataPacket

Method Detail

createPrimaryKey

public EPrimaryKey createPrimaryKey(DataPacket dp)
                             throws ProcessingErrorException

This method creates a primary key instance from the information in the DataPacket.

Parameters:

dp - the primary key information

Returns:

an EPrimaryKey instance

Throws:

ProcessingErrorException - if processing fails.

getEntityName

public java.lang.String getEntityName()

This method gets a String that uniquely identifies this Entity Bean. This should be the JNDI name of the EJB.

Returns:

The entity name

getPersister

public EPersister getPersister()

This method gets an instance of the Persister class that is used for persisting this.

Returns:

EPersister instance

getPrimaryKey

public EPrimaryKey getPrimaryKey()

This method gets a primary key that uniquely identifies this Entity Bean instance.

Returns:

an EPrimaryKey instance

populate

public void populate(DataPacket dp)

This method populates the attributes of the Entity Bean with the information in the DataPacket.

Parameters:

dp - The DataPacket containing the data for the Entity Bean's attributes