[Beankeeper-discussion] save method

[Shay M. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

the following is taken form form the Save Jdoc, i belive that the 
description should be expended,please see my questions inline :

Save the given object to the store. The given object's all private 
non-transient fields will be saved. If the object was not selected from 
the store, and not yet saved, it will be created in the store, and a 
unique id will be assigned, so all subsequent calls to save the given 
object will only modify the already existing instance in store. A few tips:
1) only private fields ? what about public and protected?
2) the existence or no existence  of accessors methods does not affect 
the library at all?

    * Use simple beans. Although this library does not scan methods to
      determine the attributes to save, it is a good idea to simplify
      work with them.

3)  what do you mean by simple?  for example i am using the 
XMLRootElement annotation, and i implement numerous interfaces , should 
i avoid  it?
4) if the library does not use reflection how does it get the list of 
fields?

    * If you do not use simple beans, watch out that your object does
      not reference unnecessary objects, because if it does, all will be
      saved/inserted and tracked.

5) i assume that marking such objects as transient will address that?

    * You CAN use objects which reference other beans though. But
      beware, that all objects which are directly referenced will be
      loaded when the parent object loads.

6) can you expend on the above?

    * You CAN use Map, and List types in your beans. Check the
      documentation.



some samples on what not do and best practices, would probably be helpful.

hopefully anybody that  reads  my posts , will get a some hints ,on what 
not to do  :)

Thanks,
Shay