How do you use an entity bea that uses an identity column?

Question

I am using an mssql database. I need to create an entity bean for a table that uses an identity column. I want to use the identity column as the Primary key in the entity bean.
I assumed that I should not pass in a paramter for the identity column into the create method of the Home interface or the create method of the Bean ejbCreate method. But when I try using the entitity bean to create a new row in the table I get the following error.
Cannot insert explicit value for identity column in table 'PropsTableIdentity when IDENTITY_INSERTis set to OFF.
I didn't think I was doing anything to explicitly insert anything into the identity column.
Anyways here are my programs if anybody cares to take a look.
PropsIdentity.java
package propsIdentity;
// File generated by Desiderata Software's Blazix entity bean wizard
// Thu May 05 08:20:44 MDT 2005
// Remote interface for entity bean "PropsIdentity"
import javax.ejb.*;
import java.rmi.*;
public interface PropsIdentity extends javax.ejb.EJBObject {
     int getKey() throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
     java.lang.String getValue() throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
     void setValue( java.lang.String value ) throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
     // TBD:  Add any additional remote method interfaces
     PropsIdentityHome.java
package propsIdentity;
// File generated by Desiderata Software's Blazix entity bean wizard
// Thu May 05 08:20:44 MDT 2005
// Home interface for entity bean "PropsIdentity"
import javax.ejb.*;
import java.rmi.*;
import java.util.*;
public interface PropsIdentityHome extends javax.ejb.EJBHome {
     PropsIdentity create(
               java.lang.String value
               ) throws javax.ejb.CreateException, java.rmi.RemoteException;
     PropsIdentity findByPrimaryKey( java.lang.Integer pkey ) throws javax.ejb.FinderException, java.rmi
.RemoteException;
}PropsIdentityHome.java
code]
package propsIdentity;
// File generated by Desiderata Software's Blazix entity bean wizard
// Thu May 05 08:20:44 MDT 2005
// Home interface for entity bean "PropsIdentity"
import javax.ejb.*;
import java.rmi.*;
import java.util.*;
public interface PropsIdentityHome extends javax.ejb.EJBHome {
     PropsIdentity create(
               java.lang.String value
               ) throws javax.ejb.CreateException, java.rmi.RemoteException;
     PropsIdentity findByPrimaryKey( java.lang.Integer pkey ) throws javax.ejb.FinderException, java.rmi
.RemoteException;
PropsIdentityBean.java
package propsIdentity;
// File generated by Desiderata Software's Blazix entity bean wizard
// Thu May 05 08:20:44 MDT 2005
// Home interface for entity bean "PropsIdentity"
import javax.ejb.*;
import java.rmi.*;
import java.util.*;
public interface PropsIdentityHome extends javax.ejb.EJBHome {
     PropsIdentity create(
               java.lang.String value
               ) throws javax.ejb.CreateException, java.rmi.RemoteException;
     PropsIdentity findByPrimaryKey( java.lang.Integer pkey ) throws javax.ejb.FinderException, java.rmi
.RemoteException;
}PropsIdentityBean.java
// Thu May 05 08:20:44 MDT 2005
// Bean class for entity bean "PropsIdentity"
import javax.ejb.*;
import javax.naming.*;
import java.rmi.*;
public class PropsIdentityBean implements javax.ejb.EntityBean {
     //Instance member variables.
     public int key = 0;
     public java.lang.String value = null;
     // Entity context, can be used to obtain handles etc
     javax.ejb.EntityContext ejbEntityContext = null;
     //Getter/setter methods
     public int getKey() throws java.rmi.RemoteException
          return key;
     public java.lang.String getValue() throws java.rmi.RemoteException
          return value;
     public void setValue( java.lang.String value ) throws java.rmi.RemoteException
          this.value = value;
     // TBD:  Add implementations for any additional remote method interfaces
     // The default ejbCreate method.
     public java.lang.Integer ejbCreate(
               java.lang.String value
          throws javax.ejb.CreateException, java.rmi.RemoteException
          this.value = value;
          return null;
     // TBD:  If any other ejbCreate's are added manually to the home interface, define them.
     // Other methods required in an entity bean
     public void setEntityContext( javax.ejb.EntityContext ejbEntityContext )
          throws RemoteException
          this.ejbEntityContext = ejbEntityContext;
     public void unsetEntityContext()
          throws RemoteException
          this.ejbEntityContext = null;
     public void ejbPostCreate(
               java.lang.String value
     // TBD:  Do any post-instance-creation processing here
     public void ejbRemove()
          throws java.rmi.RemoteException, javax.ejb.RemoveException
     // TBD:  Do any processing here when instance is being removed
     public void ejbActivate()
          throws java.rmi.RemoteException
     // TBD:  Do any processing here when instance is activated
     public void ejbPassivate()
          throws java.rmi.RemoteException
     // TBD:  Do any processing here when instance is being passivated
     public void ejbLoad()
          throws java.rmi.RemoteException
     // TBD:  Load any data needed by instance
     //       in addition to the container-managed data.
     public void ejbStore()
          throws java.rmi.RemoteException
     // TBD:  Store any data used by instance
     //       in addition to the container-managed data.
}     Script used to create table in mssql
if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[PropsTableIdentity]') and OBJE
CTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1)
drop table [dbo].[PropsTableIdentity]
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PropsTableIdentity] (
     [key] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
     [value] [varchar] (255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GOAnybody have any clue on how to figure the entity bean to work with the identity column?

Answer 1

Hi,
CAN THIS BE DONE? This would be a good enhancement if not...???
If I write a PL/SQL loop and want to add it to the utilities... IS THERE A WAY?