The invention which meets the needs of an object-oriented structured query language (OOSQL) support for enterprise Java beans is an apparatus and method for automatic generation of a portable, OOSQL query in terms of a bean's attributes and methods at the time of development. The method accomplishes its purpose by bridging between CORBA EJB, by executing an object-oriented query on an application server that returns data objects responsive to the query; adding each object returned by the server to a Java Vector object, converting the Java Vector object to a Java Enumeration; and narrowing the Java Enumeration to the EJB objects having attributes that that meet the conditions of the query.