// In reality our bean would probably be looking up these nice
// things from an entity bean. In our case we'll just cheat :)
NiceThings niceThings = new NiceThings("cake",
23,
"black as night");
return niceThings;
// In reality this bean would probably try and update nice things
// in the relevant entity bean(s) and return a boolean to indicate
// whether the update was successful or not. Again, we'll cheat.
return true;