Primary Key generation in CMP EJB

[Mohnish Saini]

Hello Friends

I need to implement primarykey generation in CMP EJB. That primary key should be of string type.

I have already implemented the primary key generation using java.lang.Integer and java.lang.Long.
But i need to implement using java.lang.String.

<prim-key-class>java.lang.String</prim-key-class>

Please guide me.

Thanks
Mohnish

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Mohnish Saini wrote:I need to implement primarykey generation in CMP EJB. That primary key should be of string type.

Why can't you use Integer? Sequences are pretty standard for autogenerated keys.

[Mohnish Saini]

I need a string because if I used Integer or Long in the java code, its max value is far less that the corresponding PK column which is Number(38) in the database. And it will give me Numeric Overflow exception.