You also have findByPrimaryKey on each bean. Use it for adding specific bean
to the collection / relation.

Igor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricardo de Souza Moura [mailto:ricsouzamoura@(protected)]
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 1:23 PM
> To: J2EEPATTERNS-INTEREST@(protected)
> Subject: EJB relationship
>
> Imagine that I have two Entity Beans A and B.
> The relashionship between them is mxn.
>
> A have a getBs() method that return a Collection of B and B have a getAs()
> method that return a Collection of A.
>
> if I want to put a B into the A, I need call the getBs() method from A and
> call add() from Collection, isn't it ?
>
> But when I call the getBs() method, the container load all Bs to A.
> Imagine
> if I had 1000000 Bs in the A.
>
> What is the solution to this challenge ?
>
> Thanks
>
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