Data bean commands

A command data bean relies on a command to retrieve its data and is a more lightweight data bean. The command retrieves all attributes for the data bean at once, regardless of whether the JSP page requires them. As a result, for JSP pages that use only a selection of attributes from the data bean, a command data bean may be costly in terms of performance time. While access control can be enforced on a data bean level when using the smart data bean, this is not true for command data bean. Only use command data bean if using a smart data bean is impractical.

The following diagram illustrates the relationship between the implementation class and interface of a new data bean command with the existing abstract implementation class and interface. The abstract class and interface are both found in the com.ibm.commerce.command package.

Related concepts

Command types