anonymous wrote : | Basically, this is a huge use-case for ejb3 and I'm suprised its not addressed, nor even discussed. Yet its the first thing anyone mentions when they get into implementing some ejb3 app. | Why is this a huge use case? Simply do something like this: | public final String findHottestQuery = "select c FROM Content c" | | Query q = em.createNamedQuery(findHottestContent + " order by viewsWeekly desc"); | If your queries access different database objects (and not just different data) you will not profit from named queries or parametrized statements anyway. Regards Felix View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008999#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...