Container Managed Entity Beans and Client Identifier in Oracle

Question

Is it possible to use Container Managed Entity Beans (EJB with CMP)
in a way that the Oracle database sessions still know the
individual Client Identifiers of the actual users
(not just the Identifier of the proxy user defined in the
Connection Pool)?
If Yes: How?
If No: The consequence would be that the
technologies EJB with CMP cannot be user together with
Oracle Virtual Private Databases (VPN) because VPN requires
some kind of Client Identifier.
I am grateful for any hint.
Regards,
Martin Siepmann
+49 (0)163 / 7765328

Answer 1

Not quite an auto-incrementing PK, but it is managed by the container. the following is from the turorial
Generating Primary Key Values
For some entity beans, the value of a primary key has a meaning for the business entity. For example, in an entity bean that represents a phone call to a support center, the primary key might include a time stamp that indicates when the call was received. But for other beans, the key's value is arbitrary--provided that it's unique. With container-managed persistence, these key values can be generated automatically by the EJB container. To take advantage of this feature, an entity bean must meet these requirements:
* In the deployment descriptor, the primary key class is defined as a java.lang.Object. The primary key field is not specified.
* In the home interface, the argument of the findByPrimaryKey method must be a java.lang.Object.
* In the entity bean class, the return type of the ejbCreate method must be a java.lang.Object.
In these entity beans, the primary key values are in an internal field that only the EJB container can access. You cannot associate the primary key with a persistent field or any other instance variable. However, you can fetch the bean's primary key by invoking the getPrimaryKey method, and you can locate the bean by invoking its findByPrimaryKey method.
Maybe that is good enough
christina