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Re: [eclipselink-dev] Facilitating migration from Toplink / Toplink Essentials to EclipseLink for pure JPA applications
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I like part 1 of the proposal.
I do not think that EclipseLink itself should allow itself to be selected as the
JPA provider when the user has specifically chosen TopLink Essentials. To me,
if a user requests a specific JPA provider another provider should not allow
itself to be selected. Perhaps this is something that should be done within
GlassFish rather than within EclipseLink.
-Tom
Mitesh Meswani wrote:
*Background*
Currently, an app using Toplink / Toplink Essentials as JPA provider
(and not using any of provider specific features in code), will still
need to be manually modified by user to change persistence.xml for
property names from toplink.* to eclipselink.* and provider name from
oracle.toplink.*.EntityManagerFactoryProvider to
org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider. We know that
EclipseLink has a migration tool that helps user with this. However,
using the tool would require manual steps from user. It might not be
possible/convenient for many users to change their packaged application
(like .ear and .war) for this. This issue came up during discussion
about upgrade from GlassFish V2 to V3
*Proposal
*1. We translate the property names and provider during deploy. This
would help ease migration from Toplink to EclipseLink for majority of
JPA users who would mainly be using toplink.jdbc.* properties in their
persistence.xml.
2. We accept oracle.toplink.*.EntityManagerFactoryProvider as a
supported class name
To be more specific, for 1 above, we enhance
EntityManagerSetupImpl#deploy() to translate old toplink properties in
addition to translation that it is doing now. For 2 above, we enhance
JPAInitializer.isPersistenceProviderSupported(String className) to
accept oracle.toplink.*.EntityManagerFactoryProvider as a supported
provider. To facilitate the use case where a user explicitly wants to
use Toplink, we can try to be clever in accpeting toplink as a supported
provider only if Toplink is not found in classpath.
I can work on implementing this. Please reply with your thoughts/comments.
Thanks,
Mitesh
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