Literals
A string literal is enclosed in single quotes. A single quote that occurs within a string literal is represented by two single quotes; For example... 'Tom''s'. A string literal cannot exceed the maximum length that is supported by the underlying persistent datastore.
A numeric literal can be any of the following...
- an exact value such as 57, -957, +66
- any value supported by Java long
- a decimal literal such as 57.5, -47.02
- an approximate numeric value such as 7E3, -57.4E-2
A decimal or approximate numeric value must be in the range supported by the underlying persistent datastore.
A boolean literal can be the keyword TRUE or FALSE and is case insensitive.
See Also
EJB query language
WHERE clause
Using EJB query