Error in deploying CMP Entity Beans

Question

Hello,
When I created a CMP Entity Bean using the JDeveloper Release Candidate and try to deploy it I get the following message:
Auto-creating table: create table POGROUP_PRESS_RELEASE (press_release_id integer not null primary key, press_release_date varchar (255) null, title varchar (255) null, time varchar (255) null, release_type varchar (255) null, URL VARCHAR2(100))
Warning: Error creating table: ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object
What does this mean? Does it mean that this bean cannot be deployed. If the table already exists in the database shouldn't it use the table instead of trying to create the table?
Any help would be appreciated,
Gopi

Answer 1

initialize "table" attribute of <entity-deployment> element to POGROUP_PRESS_RELEASE.This will prevent auto-create functionality of OC4J.
However this <entity-deployment> tag present only in orion-ejb-jar.xml.So you have to create this file and include along with ejb-jar.xml in jar file.
Sample orion-ejb-jar.xml looks like this....
<orion-ejb-jar deployment-version="1.0.2.2" deployment-time="ea013a2eda">
<enterprise-beans>
<entity-deployment name="TestHome" location="TestHome" wrapper="TestHome_EntityHomeWrapper5" table="POGROUP_PRESS_RELEASE" data-source="jdbc/OracleDS">
<primkey-mapping>
<cmp-field-mapping name="m_ID" persistence-name="ID" />
</primkey-mapping>
<resource-ref-mapping name="jdbc/OracleCoreDS" />
</entity-deployment>
</enterprise-beans>
</entity-deployment>
</orion-ejb-jar>
For complete DTD :
http://xmlns.oracle.com/ias/dtds/orion-ejb-jar.dtd
Hope this helps.....
--Venky