Database problems deploying a CMP EntityBean

Question

Hi,
I've written an CMP EntityBean and i've put the EJB-QL statements for the findermethods in the deployment descriptor.
What i've written is an extra bean into the petstore as an exercise.
What I don't understand is how the database-table is created. I don't have a create table statement anywhere in my code.
The error I get during deployment is as follows:
deploy:
[exec] Generated sql = SELECT "a"."userId" FROM "CustomerEJBTable" "a"
[exec] java.lang.RuntimeException: No database specified for CMP EntityBeans' persistent state
[exec] at com.sun.ejb.sqlgen.SQLGenerator.generateSQL(SQLGenerator.java:196)
[exec] at com.sun.enterprise.tools.deployment.main.DeployTool.doGenerateSQL(DeployTool.java:260)
[exec] at com.sun.enterprise.tools.deployment.main.Main.main(Main.java:268)
[exec] Result: 2
[exec] Deploy the application in ..\build\petstore.ear on the server localhost saving the client jar as null
[exec] Sender object Deploy Tool : Deploy PetStoreEAR on localhost
[exec] Remote message: Contacted Server....
[exec] Remote message: Application PetStoreEAR transferred.
[exec] Remote message: PetStoreEAR has 16 ejbs, 1 web components to deploy.
[exec] Remote message: Deploying Ejbs....
[exec] Remote message: Processing beans ....
[exec] Remote message: Compiling wrapper code ....
[exec] Sender object Deploytool (Main) : RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:
[exec] java.rmi.RemoteException: Error processing ejb jar: Compilation failed.
[exec] Result: 1
My EJB has nothing to do with that CustomerEJBTable, I want my bean to be stored in its own table.
I've tried to create a table with cloadview into the PetstoreDB-database, but that doesn't seem to work eather.
any ideas what I'm doing wrong ???
Thanks.

Answer 1

Before you deploy a CMP, you have to either create the corresponding database table or you have to declare that the table be created at deployment time. You have to declare this in the runtime deployment descriptor. So you don't need a create table statement anywhere in your code.
Hope that helps,
Smitha