CMP beans, VCafe IDE and " finder-expression "

Question

I am building CMP beans, and am trying to make some finder methods.
VCafe allows you to make the string for the "<finder-query>" element in
the weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml, but I can't find UI to also add a
"<finder-expression>" element to the finder-query. Am I just missing it
somewhere, or why the omission?

Answer 1

Using this will allow me to make the <finder-query> attrubute, but NOT any
<finder-expression> attributes.....Or am I missing something? I am trying to
have my finder pass in a PK object, but then use the public primative members
of the PK object to compare to what is in the database. If I say
findbyForeignKey(ForeignPK) and the database has a foreign_id column that
contains a long, and the ForeignPK has a long as it's id, I can't use (= $0
foreign_id). I get an error. The EJB Deployer tool allows you to add
expressions like <number> 0, <expression> @0.id, <type> long, all along with
the finder query. Does anyone know how to add the expression part of the
query, not just the WLQL query itself, in VCafe?
Nirav Chanchani wrote:
Michael,
I assume you are using WebGain Studio 4.0. The sequence is
Project->Configure Deployment Descriptor->Target Options Tab->Finders Tab.
Nirav.
Michael SMith wrote:
I am building CMP beans, and am trying to make some finder methods.
VCafe allows you to make the string for the "<finder-query>" element in
the weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml, but I can't find UI to also add a
"<finder-expression>" element to the finder-query. Am I just missing it
somewhere, or why the omission?--
Nirav Chanchani
BEA Systems, Inc.