Read-only view entities

I have an entity class based on a view, which is supposed to be read-only. I already made all column properties "insertable = false, updatable = false". I also removed all setters, as they don't make sense. Would it make sense to also declare all properties as final? I'd say so...

Karsten

Yes. I'd be trying to make it as clear a possible to developers that this entity is not for changing. However, I'm not sure if this will work. The way most ORMs work is to instantiate an instance of a class, then set property values. If properties are final, this is not going to work.

I just realized that having no setters on my read-only entity classes would violate against the JavaBean spec saying every bean needs a getter AND setter. Is there a problem with that?

BTW: with "view entities" I really mean a DB view, which is made to be read-only - at least in my case.

Karsten