What are you JHeadstart developers using in your SuperClasses?

Question

Hi Everyone:
We are very new to JHeadstart/JDeveloper and have just established the method we are going to use at the Entity Level to convert input to Uppercase by putting the following code into a superclass and extending the .xml files of the entities from EntityImpl to this superclass which we called UWCustomEntities.
What I am wondering is what other ways is this functionality being used by you more experienced JHeadstart Developers? I am trying not to re-invent the wheel and utilize methods that have worked well for you.
Of course I can think of toLowerCase, what else are you using?
Thanks so much in advance.
Mary
U of Windsor
Example Code:
package its.sis.BusinessModel.model;
import oracle.jbo.AttributeDef;
import oracle.jbo.server.EntityImpl;
public class UWCustomEntities extends EntityImpl {
public UWCustomEntities() {
// This code converts the inputted string to Uppercase in the database.
// April 27, 2007 mb
protected void setAttributeInternal(int i, Object object) {
Object value = object;
AttributeDef def = getEntityDef().getAttributeDef(i);
if ("true".equalsIgnoreCase((String)def.getProperty("UPPERCASE"))) {
if (value != null && value instanceof String) {
value = ((String)value).toUpperCase();
super.setAttributeInternal(i, value);
}

Answer 1

archassistant is a KDE app, so i won't be using that... im thinking of giving wicd a whirl
True, but im using it in Xfce4 and it works wihtout any problems, and the requirements are not a problems either.
Archassistan requirements
- arch linux distro !
- QT ( qt4)
- netcfg2
So even if it is KDE you dont need a whole bunch of kde dependencies