Beta Draft: 2012-12-13

10 Providing Software as a Service

This chapter provides instructions for creating shared Oracle EclipseLink applications that run in software as a service (SaaS) environments.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Introduction to the Solution

• Making JPA Entities Extensible

• Making JAXB Beans Extensible

• Using Multitenancy

• Using an External Metadata Source

Use Case

Users want to establish a SaaS environment, where applications are shared by multiple clients.

Solution

Employ EclipseLink SaaS features, such as extensibility, multi-tenancy, and external metadata sources.

Components

• EclipseLink 12c Release 1 (12.1.2)