MentaBean Interface

If you prefer, you can invert the Session-to-Bean relationship by using the MentaBean interface so instead of passing a bean to the session to invoke the CRUD operations you can invoke them directly on the bean instance.

Normal Approach

You just pass the bean instance as a parameter to the session CRUD methods:

public class User {
    // ...
}

BeanSession session = new MySQLBeanSession(mgr, conn);

session.insert(user);
session.load(user);
session.update(user);
session.delete(user);




Inverted Approach

You bean class can implement the MentaBean interface or just inherit from the AbstractMentaBean class:

public class User extends AbstractMentaBean {
    // ...
}

BeanSession session = new MySQLBeanSession(mgr, conn);

user.setBeanSession(session); // setter injection...

user.insert();
user.load();
user.update();
user.delete();