FOREIGN KEY IS PRIMARY KEY

Question

Hi,
Has anyone come across the following problem?
I have two tables
customer individual
customer_id (PK) customer_id (PK)
customer_id in individual is the primary key for that table. It is also a foreign key ( related back to customer).
If I use JDeveloper to drag in the two tables ( into a class diagraqm), I have a problem.
JDeveloper "sees" the Individual bean foreign key mapping and generates a getCustomer() method (which returns a handle to the appropriate customer bean).
However as it "removes" the getCustomer_id() method(which returns the actual customer_id), the primary_key reference is dropped.
When I try and compile, JDeveloper quite rightly complains with "where is the primary key".
Can anyone help? Do I need to make it a rule that the foreign key is not also the primary key?
thanks in advance,
Kevin

Answer 1

Hello,
I am having the same problem attempting to use a foreign key as a primary key in an EJB 2.0 CMR running on WLS 6.1. If I do not set the foreign key portion of my composite key in the ejbCreate() method I get an error stating that the field cannot be null (and must be set), when I set the field in the ejbCreate I then get an Error in the ejbPostCreate stating that CMR fields cannot be set using the setXXX methods. The entity relations are as follows:
SalesOrder <--------------------------------------->SalesOrderProduct
SalesOrder = (orderid(PK)+orderstatus+salesrepid+contractdate+processdate)
SalesOrderProduct = (orderid(PK/FK)+productid(PK)+qty+unitcost)
The CMR relationship is bi-directional. The SalesOrder entity bean's ejbPostCreate() method
invokes a helper method that attempts to create the salesOrder product entity as part of the salesorder create transaction and that's when I get the errors stated above.
Have or anyone found out how to handle this kind of cmr using the Weblogic server (6.1) and ejb 2.0??
Thanks,
Darryl