entitybean question

[Timber Lee]

Which methods is optional in the Home Interface of an Entity Bean?

[Chris Mathews]

None. In fact, there is no such thing as an optional method in ANY Java interface.
However, since providing the implementation of the Home interface is the responsibility of the Container, this does not affect us.

[Shankar Ranganathan]

Yeah, I agree. There is nothing like that.

[Timber Lee]

but scea@whiz say create() is option

[Thomas Hofmann]

You can omit the create method in the home interface if the bean's data are created by external applications (e.g. legacy COBOL app) or tools (SQL Plus.
Extraction from EJB 2.0 spec:
An entity bean�s remote home interface can define zero or more create<METHOD>(...) methods,
Thomas