public CustomFindByEntitiesCommand(Method finderMethod) throws IllegalArgumentException 
{
   // Constructors --------------------------------------------------
      finderImplMethod = finderMethod;
      // set name for debugging purposes
      name = "Custom finder "+finderMethod.getName();
      if (log.isDebugEnabled())
         log.debug("Finder:"+name);
}

Constructs a JAWS command which can handle multiple entity finders that are BMP implemented.

Parameters:

finderMethod - the EJB finder method implementation

 public Collection execute(Method finderMethod,
    Object[] args,
    EntityEnterpriseContext ctx) throws Exception 
{
      // invoke implementation method on ejb instance
      try {
         // if expected return type is Collection, return as is
         // if expected return type is not Collection, wrap result in Collection
         if (finderMethod.getReturnType().equals(Collection.class))  {
            return (Collection)finderImplMethod.invoke(ctx.getInstance(),args);
         } else {
            Collection coll = new ArrayList(1);
            coll.add(finderImplMethod.invoke(ctx.getInstance(),args));
            return coll;
         }
      } catch (IllegalAccessException e1) {
         throw new FinderException("Unable to access finder implementation:"+finderImplMethod.getName());
      } catch (IllegalArgumentException e2) {
         throw new FinderException("Illegal arguments for finder implementation:"+finderImplMethod.getName());
      } catch (ExceptionInInitializerError e5) {
         throw new FinderException("Unable to initialize finder implementation:"+finderImplMethod.getName());
        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
            Throwable target  = e.getTargetException();
            if(target instanceof Exception) {
                throw (Exception)target;
            }
            throw new FinderException("Unable to initialize finder implementation: " + finderImplMethod.getName());
        }
}