Creating and Editing the Enterprise Beans' Methods 

Use

You can create the bean’s business methods when you create the enterprise bean, or later when you develop the bean’s business logic. When you create the bean, the NetWeaver Developer Studio generates the default methods, but you can edit them afterwards, and add additional methods if this is required by the logic of your bean.

When you create container-managed persistent fields and container-managed relationship fields for container-managed entity beans, the NetWeaver Developer Studio automatically generates the corresponding accessor methods (get and set accessor methods).

Prerequisites

The enterprise bean is created.

Procedure

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       1.      From the J2EE Explorer pane, choose your EJB Project ® ejb-jar.xml ® the enterprise bean whose methods you want to modify

       2.      From the context menu, choose Open.

The right-hand pane displays the bean properties.

       3.      Choose the Methods tab

       4.       

If You Want To	Then
Create new methods	...                             a.      From the tree structure in the Methods tab, select the type of the method that you want to create                             b.      Choose add                             c.      In the corresponding fields, enter the method’s name, return type, and parameters
Edit an existing method	...                             a.      From the tree structure in the Methods tab, select the corresponding method                             b.      Edit the corresponding method fields
Edit the generated ejbCreate method	...                             a.      From the tree structure in the Methods tab, select EJB Methods ® Create Methods ® ejbCreate You can modify the parameters of the ejbCreate method only.                             b.      Add new or edit the existing method parameters

 

The Methods tab of message-driven beans is disabled and you cannot perform any of the actions described above. This is due to the logic of the message-driven bean architecture.

Furthermore, you cannot edit the generated get and set accessor methods for the persistent fields you have created in your container-managed entity beans. You can only view these methods in the Business Methods sub-node.