Hello,

I'm using XDoclet tags to define a CMP EntityBean. The field VERSIONNO from my correspondent table is auto-generated (I set the parameter use-soft-locking="true").

....

* @ejb.bean

* name="Company"

* type="CMP"

* local-jndi-name="ejb/CompanyLocalHome"

* jndi-name="ejb/CompanyHome"

* cmp-version="2.x"

* view-type="local"

* schema="COM_COMPANY"

* primkey-field="oid"

* use-soft-locking="true"

....

public abstract int getVersion();

public abstract void setVersion(int version);

....

Having these settings, the creation and update of records in this table auto-increase (from 0)
the value of field VERSIONNO. Great until now. But also an apparently inoffensive method also leads to an increase of this field! Concrete: I have a facade session bean which calls the above mentioned entity bean for a simple find, like this:

/**

* Returns one company

* @ejb.interface-method

* @ejb.transaction type="Required"

*/

public CompanyVO getCompany(String oid) throws CompanyNotFoundException, SystemException, AuthorizationException {

try {

home = CompanyUtil.getLocalHome();

CompanyLocal obj = home.findByPrimaryKey(oid);

CompanyVO vo = new CompanyVO();

vo.setOid(obj.getOid());

/* ...other setters called... */

return vo;

} catch (Exception e) {

}

return null;

}

Is this behavior normal? I expected VERSIONNO to be increased only when the record is updated in database. Did I set something wrong? I even tested some other transactional behaviors for this method, but nothing good happened. Can I get some help?

Thank you in advance,
Cristina