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Relation between Mulitple instance of EntityManagerFactory [message #810842]

Thu, 01 March 2012 16:00

Kamran Muhammad

Messages: 2
Registered: March 2012

Junior Member

Hi Everyone!
I am creating entitymanagerfactory and adding dynamic types to it using JPADynamicHelper class. Types are added successfully.
Now if i go and create a new instance of EntityManagerFactory
with same name and properties . Newly created Factory already has dynamic types earlier added for previous instance of Entity Manager Factory. What is the reason. and what is the relation between multiple instnace of Entity manager factory here.?

Following is the out line of code.

EntityManagerFactory factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("elink", properties);

List<DynamicType> dynamicTypes = DynamicTypeGenerator
.generateDynamicTypes(classLoader, "edu.model");

JPADynamicHelper helper = new JPADynamicHelper(factory);
helper.addTypes(false, false,dynamicTypes.toArray(new DynamicType[dynamicTypes.size()]));

//now again creating entity manager factory with same name and properties.
EntityManagerFactory factory2 = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("elink", properties);
JPADynamicHelper helper2 = new JPADynamicHelper(factory2);
DynamicType type = helper2.getType(dynamicTypes.get(0).getName());
//returned type is not null. This time factory already has dynamic types earlier loaded. Reason why it has those.

Thanks,
Kamran

[Updated on: Thu, 01 March 2012 16:02]

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Re: Relation between Mulitple instance of EntityManagerFactory [message #810881 is a reply to message #810842]

Thu, 01 March 2012 16:38

James Sutherland

Messages: 1939
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa, Canada

Senior Member

Any factories created with the same persistence unit name and properties will be the same persistence unit.
This allows the same persistence unit accessed in multiple places to be the same persistence unit.

To get a new one, set any of the connection properties, or the "eclipselink.session-name" property to a unique value.

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Re: Relation between Mulitple instance of EntityManagerFactory [message #811599 is a reply to message #810842]

Fri, 02 March 2012 15:28

Kamran Muhammad

Messages: 2
Registered: March 2012

Junior Member

Thanks for the reply and help.
So when persistance unit gets recycled. is it the life time of entity manager factory or it is some cache time limit?

Thanks,
Kamran

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