Access data through table relationship

Question

i have some CMP Entity beans mapped to some pointbase tables. i designed a simple relationship between two tables PERSON and COUNTRY, where PERSON has an integer field that references to the COUNTRY primary key. the COUNTRY table has a string column containing the country's name.
i have PERSON as an entity bean. how can i access the country name instead of the integer id that is passed at get/set? should i create a COUNTRY bean as well and create relationships ? or can i just access the name value using a simple query and return it instead of the class' getter?
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

if i didn't made much sense before when i explained the tables' structure, here it is:
create table country
id SMALLINT NOT NULL,
name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT pk_country PRIMARY KEY (id)
create table person
id INTEGER NOT NULL,
first_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
last_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
country SMALLINT,
CONSTRAINT pk_id PRIMARY KEY (id),
CONSTRAINT fk_country FOREIGN KEY (country) REFERENCES country(id)