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Inheritance & EJBs
"Inheritance and EJBs" shows how entity EJBs can be used effectively to represent business objects with inheritance and polymorphic behavior. It shows you how to implement entity bean inheritance with three sample CMP EJBs, demonstrating a polymorphic finder query and a couple of polymorphic method calls.
One of the most common criticisms of entity EJBs is that they don't support inheritance or polymorphism. If this were true, it would be a serious complaint for two reasons. First, entity beans are intended to provide an object-oriented view of information in a persistent store, and inheritance and polymorphism are key aspects of the object-oriented programming paradigm. Second, many bean developers are using relational database schemas that essentially implement a form of inheritance, and they need to be able to operate on these schemas with their EJBs. However, in practice, entity EJBs are capable of meeting these requirements.
In this article I'm going to show how to implement entity bean inheritance with three CMP EJBs: a "base class" PARTY EJB and two "derived class" EJBs: PERSON and CORPORATION. (This is a common design in relational database schemas.) Furthermore, I'll demonstrate a polymorphic finder query and a couple of polymorphic method calls. The beans I produce will be absolutely portable according to the EJB 2.0 specification.
I'll also show how these container-managed persistence beans can be mapped to a standard relational database schema for this type of data. The EJB specification does not require particular object/relational mapping capabilities from an EJB container's CMP engine. It does not even require that the container be able to use relational databases at all, so the ability to map to a particular schema is not portable. However, I am the author of a pluggable CMP engine that provides this capability (the MVCSoft Persistence Manager). We'll look at how this engine is able to make the sometimes-difficult translation from EJB objects and relationships to database tables, and what is involved from the user's point of view in using this particular mapping.
Some Distinctions
It's important to be clear exactly what we mean when we talk about inheritance. In this case there are three possibilities, and this article is mostly about a single one of these possibilities. First, there is the language inheritance with which every competent Java programmer is familiar. The Java language allows a class to extend a single immediate base class, which can in its turn extend another single base class, until the universal base class of java.lang.Object is reached. It also allows an interface to extend one or more interfaces. Finally, it allows a class to implement any number of interfaces. The EJB specification allows for any of the interfaces or implementation classes associated with a bean (remote home and component interfaces, local home and component interfaces, primary key class, and bean implementation class) to take advantage of these Java language features. (There are a few caveats, such as requirements for the return types from create methods.)
Second, there is an amorphous concept called "component inheritance." Although frequently used (even once in the EJB spec itself), there is no generally accepted definition of the term in this context. It would probably include (1) the ability to extend an existing entity without modifying the base component or even having the source code; (2) the ability to compare component interfaces of different types for equality; and (3) the ability to return different component interfaces from a single finder or ejbSelect method.
Third, there is "data model inheritance." This is the ability to model an inheritance hierarchy of business objects (and their polymorphic behavior) using entity EJBs. It is this last type of inheritance that this article addresses. Note that whereas language inheritance and component inheritance might be considered "implementation details," data model inheritance directly affects what can and cannot be accomplished using EJBs.
Why the Criticism?
If entity EJBs are capable of inheritance and polymorphism, why do people frequently say they are not? One source for this criticism can be found right in the EJB 2.0 specification. Section 11.2.11 says, "The data model for container-managed persistence does not currently support inheritance. Therefore, entity objects or value classes of different types cannot be compared. EJB QL queries that contain such comparisons are invalid." Furthermore, the list of features deferred to future releases includes "support for component-level inheritance."
In fact, there is no framework support in the EJB spec for inheritance and polymorphism. This has consequences for all three types of inheritance discussed above. It makes component inheritance--by any reasonable definition--impossible. It places limitations on how language inheritance is used. It requires the bean developer to implement data model inheritance on his or her own, while being mindful of the limitations of the EJB component model. This lack of framework support, and the consequences, are the issues that ultimately generate the criticism.
But that's a far cry from saying that entity EJBs are incapable of representing an inheritance hierarchy, or polymorphic behavior, in a data model. When enterprise software developers hear about the lack of inheritance in EJBs, they most likely assume that EJBs cannot work with their existing schema. But they can, and this is the important point by far. In practice, it's not that significant that you don't have "black box" component-level inheritance for EJBs. What's important is that you can represent your complete existing enterprise schema using EJBs.
How to Do It
It's not complicated to implement a schema incorporating inheritance. The fundamental technique is called "containment." This just means that your base EJB component will have a reference to its derived class or classes, and will delegate calls as appropriate. The base class will need some way of determining how to delegate the call to a related "derived" class. Typically, there will be a field (called a discriminator) that establishes the type of the base class. In its simplest form, a business method would check this discriminator, retrieve the appropriate related entity component interface from a cmr field, and delegate the call to this interface. For example, a business method call on a PARTY component interface would be translated by the container to a call on the PARTY implementation class. The PARTY implementation class might check a discriminator CMP field, and depending on the result, delegate the business method call to the PERSON cmr field or the CORPORATION cmr field.
Polymorphic relationships between entities will actually be between base EJB components, and polymorphic EJB-QL queries will return references to the base EJB component. For instance, if there were an ORDER component, it might have a relationship to a PARTY bean, rather than either a PERSON or CORPORATION bean. Or if you called a finder that retrieved all the orders in Ohio, you would query on the PARTY bean rather than the PERSON or CORPORATION bean.
It is possible that there might be methods defined on a subclass component interface that aren't defined on the base component interface. You can't use Java language casting to downcast from the base interface to the subclass interface...but you could implement a business method that returned the desired derived component interface. An elegant signature might be EJBLocalObject dynamicCast( String type ).
The example code for this article implements four EJBs: a session bean fafacadeade and the three entity EJBs (PARTY, PERSON, and CORPORATION). A client will ask the session bean facade to create some sample data: three people and three corporations. It will then execute a findAll() query that returns all six of these EJBs in a single result set. It will call two polymorphic business methods, one getting a display name and one getting a credit rating. There is nothing special about any of the code, but I'll review the parts that are relevant to inheritance or polymorphism.
First, I have provided a business interface from which every local component interface in the inheritance hierarchy derives. (See PartyIntf.java.) This is not a requirement, but it allows us to treat any local component interface in the hierarchy as a single type with polymorhic methods. If I had not done this, the business methods of all three of the component interfaces would still function correctly, but the client would not be able to treat a party component interface, a person component interface, and a corporation component interface as the same type. Really, this is just syntactic sugar.
In this example, the polymorphic behavior is implemented entirely in the PARTY bean implementation class. (See PartyBean.java.) There is a cmp field "typeCode" that indicates the derived type of the entity. There are also two cmr fields to contain the derived instance: corporation and person. In this example, they are mutually exclusive and one of them will be null, but this is not a fundamental requirement. (In other words, you can implement multiple inheritance if your schema requires it.)
There are two business methods: getDisplayName() and getCreditLimitCode(). When either of the business methods is called, the typeCode cmp field is checked and the business method is delegated appropriately. For example:
public String getDisplayName() { String code = getTypeCode(); if (code.equals("I")) return getPerson().getDisplayName(); else if (code.equals("C")) return getCorporation().getDisplayName(); throw new EJBException( "Unknown type" ); }
You could make a case that the typeCode is redundant and it should be possible to check which relationship is not null. But if the cmr field is being lazily loaded by the EJB container, this could result in unnecessary database I/O.
The findAll() query (used by the session bean facade and called by the client) is defined on the PARTY local home interface. Of course, it is only returning component interfaces for the PARTY EJB, but these represent both PERSON instances and CORPORATION instances. It is defined in the deployment descriptor as a query returning PARTY instances, as follows:
<query> <query-method> <method-name>findAll</method-name> <method-params/> </query-method> <ejb-ql>select object(pb) from PartyBean pb</ejb-ql> </query>
The last interesting pieces of code from this example are the ejbCreate and ejbPostCreate methods for the CORPORATION and PERSON beans. As well as creating the corporation or person instance, respectively, these methods need to create the corresponding PARTY instance and establish a one-one relationship between the two. You might wonder if any special technique is required, considering that the relationship between a PARTY instance and a CORPORATION or PERSON instance is likely implied by a migrated key, rather than being explicitly stored in a separate foreign key. But this is a detail of the object/relational mapping, and doesn't enter into consideration when you are coding your component. Let's take a look at CorporationBean.java's ejbCreate method:
public Integer ejbCreate( ViewCorporation view ) throws CreateException { getPartyLocalHome().create(new ViewParty(view.getId(), "C")); setViewCorporation( view ); return null; }
This is just one possible implementation, but the basic steps will usually be the same. In the ejbCreate method, we create an instance of the PARTY base component, and initialize the cmp fields for this component. Then in the ejbPostCreate method, we establish the relationship between the two:
public void ejbPostCreate( ViewCorporation view ) throws CreateException { try { PartyLocal party = getPartyLocalHome().findByPrimaryKey(view.getId()); setParty( party ); } catch (FinderException e) { throw new EJBException( "Party not created" ); } }
Object/Relational Mapping
For most enterprise developers, modeling inheritance and polymorphic behavior in EJBs is just half the battle. The other half is working with an existing schema. The code with this article should work with any EJB container, but there are no requirements in the EJB spec for any set of mapping capabilities. In practice, you'll find that there is substantial variation in capabilities between implementations, and there are three potential trouble spots here.
First, the most common database schema for this model will have a migrated primary key that establishes the relationship between the base and derived entities. In the EJB world, primary keys and relationships are completely unrelated. The persistence mechanism for your EJB container must be smart enough to realize that in this case, the primary key and relationship information in the persistent store are conflated.
Second, the typical database schema for this model will have foreign-key constraints on the migrated primary key. This requires that the database inserts take place in the correct order (to not violate these constraints). If the EJB container triggers the insert statements immediately on return from ejbCreate, you must make sure that your code is ordered correctly. The persistence manager I wrote (the MVCSoft Persistence Manager) can cache the data and write it out to the database at the end of the transaction, dynamically reordering the database i/o so as to not violate any constraints.
Finally, if your EJB container is lazily-loading relationships for large result sets, it can lead to unacceptable performance. In our example, each call from the PARTY bean to getCorporation() or getPerson() might result in a select query to the database to get the information. There are several possible solutions to this problem. For example, the MVCSoft Persistence Manager allows you to define a "fault group" for a query that defines the information you will need during the transaction, and this fault group can extend to related information. The runtime will eagerly load the required data using a minimum number of queries. If you issued a finder query that returned a hundred results and called a polymorphic method on each instance, a properly configured runtime will issue three queries, rather than 101 queries as in the lazy loading case.
Despite what you may have heard, entity EJBs can be used effectively to represent business objects with inheritance and polymorphic behavior. There is no support for this functionality in the EJB component model, but one simple technique--called containment--is to delegate polymorphic business method calls to appropriate "derived" component instances. The EJB specification does not mandate specific object/relational mapping functionality, but there are products that can work with your existing relational database schema.


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Violinist Roman Totenberg, one of the last living bridges to a storied prewar world of European string playing and a revered teacher who was for decades a pillar of Boston's musical community, died Tuesday in his Newton home.
The cause was renal failure, according to his daughter Amy. He was 101.
Beginning Sunday morning and continuing until only hours before Mr. Totenberg's death, former students from around the country, many of them now well-established performers, journeyed to Newton to pay their respects. As violinists, that meant playing music at his bedside for hours at a time.
"When the first student came from Philadelphia, he could barely even lift his eyes, but suddenly he looked at him and was just so happy,'' his daughter said. "One after the next, they came and played their hearts out for him.''
Many of the students said they carried individual debts of gratitude toward a teacher whose subject went well beyond the niceties of violin technique.
"My parents gave me life, and he taught me how to live it,'' said violinist Mira Wang, who moved from China to study with Mr. Totenberg at Boston University, where he began teaching in 1961. "As a teacher, he was the most generous man I have ever met.''
By any account, Mr. Totenberg lived a remarkable 20th century life, with musical memories dating back to the chaos surrounding the Russian Revolution. He spoke seven languages, and over the decades he played for kings and presidents, toured with musical royalty, and corresponded with luminaries such as Albert Schweitzer and Albert Einstein.
President Bill Clinton called Mr. Totenberg a national treasure. An unflaggingly elegant man, in his final years he carried his decades of life experience with a quiet sense of humility and, it often seemed, with gratitude. "I feel like a child prodigy,'' he told the Globe at age 99.
And that he once was, too. Roman Totenberg was born in 1911, into a Jewish family in Lodz, Poland. After World War I broke out, the Totenbergs moved to Moscow, where, as a boy, Mr. Totenberg lived through not only the Revolution, but also the famine that followed.
"My first memory was of a time of hunger,'' he recounted in published recollections, "when my mother came home with the head of a horse to cook something for our food.''
At 6, Mr. Totenberg began studying violin with a neighbor who was the concertmaster of the Bolshoi Opera. As soon as he learned enough to join his teacher, the two began performing in public to earn bread, butter, and sugar for their families.
Returning to Poland, Mr. Totenberg enrolled at the conservatory in Warsaw and made his debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic at 11. As a teenager in the 1920s, he studied in Berlin with the famed violin teacher Carl Flesch before the political situation worsened and he moved to Paris, where he continued his studies with the legendary Georges Enesco. Coming of age in an era of war and revolution left an indelible mark not only on Mr. Totenberg's life but also on his larger vision for the possibilities of music.
"For him, music was the natural language of freedom. It was not decorative,'' said Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, who studied violin with Mr. Totenberg for nine years. "When he played, and when he taught, you were consciously aware that he owned every phrase. It was deeply personalized. He was really the last of the Mohicans.''
Mr. Totenberg performed as a soloist with most of the prominent European orchestras, and in 1935, made his American debut with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. In a story he loved to tell, he then played in short succession in Italy for the king and for President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. Playing for the king had been a stilted affair for which he was forced to wear a cape and a top hat. By contrast he was taken by the charming informality of Eleanor Roosevelt serving dinner herself after the concert.
He settled in this country permanently in 1938, and his mother arrived from Paris via Spain in 1939. Mr. Totenberg performed internationally through the 1940s and 1950s before settling in Boston and taking a teaching position at Boston University, where he chaired the string department until 1978, and co-chaired again in the 1990s. He also served as director of the Longy School of Music from 1978 to 1985, and taught at other conservatories and music festivals around the country.
"He was an iconic figure for me and my generation, from the time we were students,'' said Robert Dodson, director of BU's School of Music. "His contributions to Boston University are beyond summary. It was one of the unexpected benefactions of my life that when I arrived at BU in 2009, I found he was still alive and teaching.''
In 1941, Mr. Totenberg married Melanie Shroder, a native New Yorker and an ebullient Democratic Party activist who for decades helped manage his career. Amy also credited their marriage with lifting Mr. Totenberg out of a depression brought on by the war years. Mrs. Totenberg died in 1996.
In the mid-1950s, he made an emotional return to Poland for a performance. The Polish public not only embraced him, but took a strong personal interest in his Polish roots. "After the concert,'' Mr. Totenberg told the Globe in 2010, in a tone of enduring disbelief, "a man came to me with a package. He had collected my letters and high school work and was bringing it to me as a token of admiration.'' Mr. Totenberg made frequent returns to Poland and helped work toward rebuilding the country's shattered postwar cultural life, under the Poland's Communist regime, and afterward.
He maintained a keen interest in the music of his time, dating back to his early years touring with the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. He later gave first performances of works by Hindemith, William Schuman, Penderecki, and Milhaud. In the standard violin repertoire, the recordings from his prime, some of which have been recently reissued by Arbiter Records, his playing shows a rare intelligence and a natural singing tone, a living spontaneity of phrasing, and an intuitive sense for the music's lyrical imperatives.
Even so, as a performer, Mr. Totenberg never attained the international profile of the era's leading soloists, but he enjoyed a more integrated career of teaching, concerto appearances, and chamber music. He cofounded the Alma Trio and toured South America with Arthur Rubinstein.
Working with young students through the decades was one key to his longevity, his daughter said. "This is how he lived so long,'' she said. "He had such a feeling for youth, and had so many people of all ages who filled his life that he didn't grow old.''
In addition to his daughter Amy, a federal judge in Atlanta, Mr. Totenberg leaves two other daughters, Nina, legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio, and Jill, CEO of the Totenberg Group, a strategic corporate communications firm in New York; and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be private and a public memorial ceremony will be announced.
During the impromptu bedside tributes offered earlier this week, Mr. Totenberg was still delivering advice on intonation, and even picking up a violin to demonstrate a fingering. "He lived on the vibration of music,'' Amy said, "and on the remarkable community that it brought.''
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CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1
Ingolf Wunder
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Int. Release 14 Jul. 2014
1 CD / Download
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Track List
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, TH 55
Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
Ingolf Wunder, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Total Playing Time 1:12:33
A brilliant young pianist covers two of the piano repertoire's best-loved works . . . This scintillating recording was made live at St. Petersburg's 2012 "White Nights Festival". Here Wunder is accompanied by the magnificent St. Petersburg Philharmonic under the baton of the legendary Vladimir Ashkenazy . These are works that Ashkenazy knows well -- he has performed them himself as a pianist hundreds of times -- and he brings crisp, precise support to Wunder's reading. In Ashkenazy's own words, Wunder offers a performance that is 'convincing, fresh and interesting.' Certainly there are moments that are revelatory in these familiar works as Wunder gives every note appropriate weight and emphasis.
Austrian-born Ingolf Wunder (1986) is among the latest group of amazing young virtuosos . . . these are brilliant performances, with Ashkenazy on the podium . . . and you'll hear some orchestral details usually unnoticed. Excellent audio . . . [Wunder]: doubtless we'll hear much more from him.
Ashkenazy gets really silken sounds out of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and where pure precision is called for, as in the high-note passages of the slow movement of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23, the results are excellent . . . Wunder is a good, maybe great technician . . . Deutsche Grammophon's live recording at St. Petersburg's White Nights arts festival is exceptional . . .
. . . [Tchaikovsky 1]: The fireworks are impressive. Wunder has a huge and commanding tone, well recorded . . . He plays excitingly and with conviction. In the "big" moments, the pianist relishes the spotlight. Elsewhere, he plays like a young firebrand . . . A great performance . . . [Chopin 1]: [the orchestra plays] with attention to details -- and thus clarifying the much-maligned orchestral textures -- as a main attraction . . . [Wunder's] obvious gifts for Chopin are fully on display . . . this album displays genuine talent and artistry.
. . . two very good performances . . . [Ashkenazy] is at pains to let us hear Tchaikovsky's scoring in meticulous detail . . . Ashkenazy and Wunder make entirely empathetic partners . . . [Chopin]: [Wunder] plays this concerto superbly -- in particular the Romanze and the last movement -- and the recorded sound has a ringing clarity and depth.
To describe Ingolf Wunder's performances as couched in a kind of neo-Mozartian aesthetic isn't to criticise but to applaud them . . . These are warm-blooded, big-boned, panoramic accounts, richly and subtly expressive without displaying a hint of bombast or manipulative self-indulgence. They are remarkably alike in their natural balance and their "symphonic" demonstration of unity achieved through diversity . . . Vladimir Ashkenazy is very much more than an accomplished and insightful accompanist. He is a fully fledged, generous partner, weaving the variegated orchestral strands into a polyphonic tapestry of timbres, perfectly suited to offset and enhance the very different sounds of the piano. Wunder, meanwhile, easily distracts us, when it's appropriate, from the essentially percussive nature of his instrument, not least when he uses his power, depth of sound and breadth of phrasing to meet the orchestra on its own terms -- as in the first movement of the Tchaikovsky. Indeed this is one of the most subtly and illuminatingly coloured accounts of this work I've encountered . . . these are both outstanding performances.
The orchestra is superlative, the conductor an elder statesman, the young prize-winning pianist a model of cultivated style . . . The recorded sound is the single best thing, since it blends the orchestra and piano together so beautifully -- there's no highlighting of the soloist, making this the only recording of the Tchaikovsky First in my experience where the pianist's opening chords don't crash and bang. Second best is the gorgeous playing from the St. Petersburg Philharmonic . . . Ashkenazy's contribution from the podium is expert . . . This leaves only Wunder to consider, and I'd say he fits into the package perfectly. His touch is exquisite in its lightness. Passagework is amazingly even; he never indulges in a vulgar gesture . . . Wunder is a sterling soloist in both works.
. . . Wunder's unquestionable skills and professionalism would be easy to recommend without the slightest qualification, not to mention the St. Petersburg Philharmonic's contributions with Vladimir Ashkenazy at the podium . . . Wunder's fingerwork in the second movement's central Prestissimo is admirably supple and fleet . . . Listeners curious about today's rising keyboard stars and how they handle the concerto repertoire's greatest hits might wish to sample this disc . . .
Ingolf Wunder und Vladimir Ashkenazy ist eine fantastische Liveaufnahme gelungen . . . Selten hört man Tschaikowskys erstes Klavierkonzert so klar und rhythmisch differenziert. Und trotzdem gelingt es Wunder, schwärmerisch und wuchtig zu klingen, ganz so wie es dieses romantisch-expressive Konzert erfordert . . . Wunder scheint die Atmosphäre der Stadt, in der Tschaikowsky gelebt hat, regelrecht in sich aufgesogen zu haben. Begriffe wie "pathetisch" und "verzaubernd" bringt er hier musikalisch auf den Punkt. Leichtfüßig tänzelt er mit dem russischen Orchester durch den Finalsatz, überzeugt aber auch mit gekonnten Tempowechseln, als ob seine Hände sich gegenseitig ausbremsen würden . . . Auch im Chopin-Konzert überrascht Wunder mit eher sparsamem Pedalgebrauch und strahlender Klarheit und ist damit eine Ausnahme unter seinen Pianistenkollegen. Dadurch erreicht er eine Intensität, die durch ihre Schlichtheit tief berührt. Es ist schwer zu sagen, was mehr beeindruckt: die Klanggestaltung oder der Umgang mit Zeit, die fließenden Übergänge zwischen dem Rhythmisch-Exakten und dem Schwelgen. In jedem Fall ist Wunder und Ashkenazy eine der besten Liveaufnahmen dieser beiden Klavierkonzerte geglückt.


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This much improved third generation SEAT Leon is a Focus-sized model that these days offers smarter styling, impressive media connectivity, strong safety provision and some efficient engine options. If you'd been overlooking it, this Spanish contender might now be worth a second glance.
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As before, Leon buyers choose from either a five-door hatch or an 'ST' estate model. In both cases, SEAT says that visual style was one of the key reasons why people bought the original version of this car, so it wasn't necessary with this current version to change the aesthetics too much. A few tweaks though, have been made. At the front and rear, there are revised bumpers and bodywork with sharper, more assertive lines, plus there's a smart chromed front grille. Inside, the ambient lighting LEDs' intensity can be regulated as the driver wishes from the newly redesigned eight-inch central infotainment screen. This monitor eliminates the need for many of the buttons and dials that were scattered around the fascia on the previous model. From this monitor, the LED ambient lighting of the cabin can be dimmed or intensified, giving the interior a classy feel. Otherwise, things are much as they were before, which means that passenger space is very class-competitive and there's a decently sized 380-litre boot in the hatch model. If you need more space than that, the ST estate offers 587-litres.
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Implicitly Typed Local Variables (C# Programming Guide)
Local variables can be given an inferred "type" of var instead of an explicit type. The var keyword instructs the compiler to infer the type of the variable from the expression on the right side of the initialization statement. The inferred type may be a built-in type, an anonymous type, a user-defined type, or a type defined in the .NET Framework class library. For more information about how to initialize arrays with var, see Implicitly Typed Arrays (C# Programming Guide).
The following examples show various ways in which local variables can be declared with var:
// i is compiled as an int
var i = 5;
// s is compiled as a string
var s = "Hello";
// a is compiled as int[]
var a = new[] { 0, 1, 2 };
// expr is compiled as IEnumerable<Customer>
// or perhaps IQueryable<Customer>
var expr =
from c in customers
where c.City == "London"
select c;
// anon is compiled as an anonymous type
var anon = new { Name = "Terry", Age = 34 };
// list is compiled as List<int>
var list = new List<int>();
It is important to understand that the var keyword does not mean "variant" and does not indicate that the variable is loosely typed, or late-bound. It just means that the compiler determines and assigns the most appropriate type.
The var keyword may be used in the following contexts:
On local variables (variables declared at method scope) as shown in the previous example.
In a for initialization statement.
for(var x = 1; x < 10; x++)
In a foreach initialization statement.
foreach(var item in list){...}
In a using Statement
using (var file = new StreamReader("C:\\myfile.txt")) {...}
For more information, see How to: Use Implicitly Typed Local Variables and Arrays in a Query Expression (C# Programming Guide).
var and Anonymous Types
In many cases the use of var is optional and is just a syntactic convenience. However, when a variable is initialized with an anonymous type you must declare the variable as var if you need to access the properties of the object at a later point. This is a common scenario in LINQ query expressions. For more information, see Anonymous Types (C# Programming Guide).
From the perspective of your source code, an anonymous type has no name. Therefore, if a query variable has been initialized with var, then the only way to access the properties in the returned sequence of objects is to use var as the type of the iteration variable in the foreach statement.
class ImplicitlyTypedLocals2
static void Main()
string[] words = { "aPPLE", "BlUeBeRrY", "cHeRry" };
// If a query produces a sequence of anonymous types,
// then use var in the foreach statement to access the properties.
var upperLowerWords =
from w in words
select new { Upper = w.ToUpper(), Lower = w.ToLower() };
// Execute the query
foreach (var ul in upperLowerWords)
Console.WriteLine("Uppercase: {0}, Lowercase: {1}", ul.Upper, ul.Lower);
/* Outputs:
Uppercase: APPLE, Lowercase: apple
Uppercase: BLUEBERRY, Lowercase: blueberry
Uppercase: CHERRY, Lowercase: cherry
The following restrictions apply to implicitly-typed variable declarations:
var can only be used when a local variable is declared and initialized in the same statement; the variable cannot be initialized to null, or to a method group or an anonymous function.
var cannot be used on fields at class scope.
Variables declared by using var cannot be used in the initialization expression. In other words, this expression is legal: int i = (i = 20); but this expression produces a compile-time error: var i = (i = 20);
Multiple implicitly-typed variables cannot be initialized in the same statement.
If a type named var is in scope, then the var keyword will resolve to that type name and will not be treated as part of an implicitly typed local variable declaration.
You may find that var can also be useful with query expressions in which the exact constructed type of the query variable is difficult to determine. This can occur with grouping and ordering operations.
The var keyword can also be useful when the specific type of the variable is tedious to type on the keyboard, or is obvious, or does not add to the readability of the code. One example where var is helpful in this manner is with nested generic types such as those used with group operations. In the following query, the type of the query variable is IEnumerable<IGrouping<string, Student>>. As long as you and others who must maintain your code understand this, there is no problem with using implicit typing for convenience and brevity.
// Same as previous example except we use the entire last name as a key.
// Query variable is an IEnumerable<IGrouping<string, Student>>
var studentQuery3 =
from student in students
group student by student.Last;
However, the use of var does have at least the potential to make your code more difficult to understand for other developers. For that reason, the C# documentation generally uses var only when it is required.
See Also
How to: Use Implicitly Typed Local Variables and Arrays in a Query Expression (C# Programming Guide)
LINQ Query Expressions (C# Programming Guide)
Implicitly Typed Arrays (C# Programming Guide)
Anonymous Types (C# Programming Guide)
Object and Collection Initializers (C# Programming Guide)
using Statement (C# Reference)
Other Resources
Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)
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Corrected statements to the effect that var is required when initializing anonymous types. In fact it is only required if you want to access the properties of those objects later.
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She stars in a glamorous photo shoot for the Christmas edition of The Australian Women's Weekly. But it's hard not to notice that Jessica Mauboy doesn't look herself.
The proudly indigenous singer and actor appears to have a lighter skin colour in the photograph, with her arms in particular looking white, leading to questions from Fairfax Media about whether the images were photoshopped.
But the Weekly's editor, Helen McCabe, insists there was absolutely nothing done to alter the portrait of Mauboy, which was taken in Darwin. She said it was ''incomprehensible'' the magazine would portray an indigenous star as having lighter skin. ''It's a lighting thing,'' McCabe said. ''It's just completely incomprehensible that we would do that.
''There's no gain in it. It's not like the old days where you wouldn't put a black person on a cover either, the old days of the magazine world. It wouldn't occur to us to touch her skin colour.''
Mauboy, who has an indigenous mother and an Indonesian father, was unavailable for comment about the picture. But the questions raised about the portrait come after similar controversies in the United States surrounding the portrayal of black stars, including Beyonce Knowles, in magazines.
Questions were raised earlier this year over a promotional photograph where Knowles was portrayed as looking many shades lighter than her real-life skin tone. McCabe said readers are well aware of the issues surrounding Photoshop - an issue that she had directly addressed as an editor - but she was adamant nothing was done deliberately in this case.
''We get completely caned for all sorts of things which actually aren't true,'' she said.
''Obviously photoshopping occurs at a level on all photos to some extent … but the truth is a lot of it is just lighting and make-up and hair. It's not the really evil stuff. This [picture] is a really good example of the tricks photos can play without going to that extra magic box and pulling out the trickery. We just don't do it.''
McCabe said the photographer, Alana Landsberry, was ''mortified'' at the suggestion that Mauboy's skin had been lightened. ''We have not changed her skin colour nor would we under any circumstance,'' Landsberry said.
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UN Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque welcomed the multimillion dollar grant offered by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at "reinventing the toilet" through new technology to save water and transform human waste into energy and fertiliser. However, she warned "the great challenge ahead is making sure that people actually use the new hardware solutions."
"New technology alone is not enough to overcome the sanitation and water crisis we face," said the expert on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. "Investments in software solutions, like awareness rising among the people on the vital importance of sanitation, are crucial to make sure the hardware solutions are actually used, as I have witnessed in some of the countries I have visited."
"I urge all countries which face challenges in ensuring access to sanitation for the whole population, to associate the creation of hardware solutions with awareness raising and education activities, on hygiene promotion, including hand washing, as well as on the crucial importance of safe sanitation as a means to decrease child mortality and improve health conditions," Ms. de Albuquerque stressed.
Even though the primary responsibility for the realisation of human rights lies with States, the Special Rapporteur noted that support by other parties – in this case a private foundation – are most welcome. "If we combine the desperate situation the world is facing concerning sanitation with the growing water crisis, the Gates' initiative proves to be even more valuable," she said. "It aims at coming up with a solution for sanitation, while avoiding wasting precious water flushing toilets."
The Special Rapporteur emphasized that sanitation is one of the most off-track of the UN Millennium Development Goals and new ideas for the sector are urgently needed, if the world aims to meet the target of reducing by 50% the number of persons without access to improved sanitation.
"Sanitation is a human right which has been recognised as such by the UN General Assembly precisely one year ago, and through this resolution governments have committed to adopt measures in order to ensure that this right becomes a reality for all," Ms. de Albuquerque said. "Sanitation, as well as water, must hence be safe, culturally acceptable, affordable, accessible and available to all without discrimination."
Learn more about the Special Rapporteur's mandate and work at: www.ohchr.org/SRwaterandsanitation
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Launch of NASA's MRO Delayed
The launch of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been postponed 24 hours. The new launch window is Thursday, August 11 from 7:50 to 9:35 a.m. EDT.
The launch was postponed due to a failure of a Redundant Rate Gyro Unit (RRGU) at the manufacturer. This unit is similar to two RRGU's that are part of the flight control system on the Atlas V launch vehicle at Launch Complex 41 at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
The engineering team is evaluating whether the failure that occurred in the testing at the manufacturer has any affect on other RRGU's in the MRO's Atlas V.
For interested media, establishing remote cameras at Complex 41 will occur on Wednesday; leaving the KSC Press Site at 2 p.m. The imagery opportunity for the Atlas V rollout from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch departs from the KSC Press Site at 10:15 p.m. EDT, tomorrow.
On launch day, Aug 11, the KSC News Center will open at 4:30 a.m. EDT. Foreign national news media should meet at Gate 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5 a.m. to be escorted to the KSC Press Site. NASA TV live coverage of the launch begins at 5:30 a.m.
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Could wearing a cell phone in your bra cause breast cancer?
Doctors call for additional research
Several doctors are calling for more research into something mothers, runners, even teenagers do everyday -- keep their cell phones in their bras.
The concern is a possible link between cell phones and breast cancer.
Tiffany Franz was just 21 when she felt the lump in her breast.
"I have my whole life ahead of me," Franz said.
Donna Jaynes, a busy mother of three, was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 39.
"I don't have any history of breast cancer in my family," Jaynes said.
They are just two of the estimated 60,000 women each year who battle new cases of breast cancer.
However, because both women kept their cell phones in their bras, doctors say new scientific studies are needed to investigate the possible link between breast cancer and cell phones.
"I kept it in my bra because it was easy to feel on vibrate," Franz said. "It was easy to hear."
After treating Franz, Dr. Randall Oyer said he's worried the skin-on-skin contact between the phone and the breast may be linked to the cancerous tumor that grew inside Franz' breast.
"We don't see breast cancer at this age," Oyer, a cancer physician, said. "When we do, we have to ask some serious questions about what is going on."
A growing group of doctors nationwide say the cell phone concern is not only because young women or women without family cancer histories are getting breast cancer.
They say it's because of what they see on mammograms and images that show exactly where the breast cancer is forming.
"We saw this unusual distribution of these little bitty tumors," said Dr. John West, a breast cancer surgeon.
Jaynes began marking her skin on the outside of her breast where those little bitty tumors were showing up on the inside.
The marks were near where Jaynes routinely carried her cell phone.
"They kept finding another tumor and another tumor," Jaynes said. "We connected the dots. And realized they formed the shape of a cell phone."
Jaynes and her doctors shared her story as part of a upcoming documentary called "Mobilize".
The movie examines the potential dangers of cell phones.
Dr. Julie Nangia, a breast cancer specialist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston says more research needs to be done before hysteria begins.
"Right now, I would say it's not dangerous, as far as we know," Nangia said. "More research is being done. If you can, it doesn't hurt to put your cell phone somewhere else in the meantime."
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute say so far studies have not shown a consistent link between cell phone use and any cancer.
However, researchers say more research is needed because cell phone technology continues to change.
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MacResearch is looking for the feedback from the scientific community once again. The last time they were looking for feedback was just a hair over a year ago, regarding scientists' concerns and issues over the PPC-to-Intel transition. This time around, they are in need of feedback for the annual Tri-Cameral meeting. The organization is holding the meeting with Apple on April 4-5 (just a few days from now) to discuss the "issues, requests, and needs that scientists using Apple products have on the platform."
The meeting is held in conjunction with sister organizations, MacEnterprise.org and MacLearningEnvironments.org. According to the posting, they're in desperate need for responses as they've only gotten around 30 so far and would like more before determining the discussion's topic list. If you're involved in science-related stuff and use a Mac, make your voice known so that it'll eventually make its way up to the big guys!
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