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Re: [eclipselink-dev] Facilitating migration from Toplink / Toplink Essentials to EclipseLink for pure JPA applications 
Bill Shannon wrote:

Mitesh Meswani wrote on 08/28/09 10:28:

Tom Ware wrote:
I am not fond of having a default version of EclipseLink ever allow itself to be selected when the user has specifically requested TopLink Essentials in their persistence.xml.
Bill's suggestion of some kind of an add-on is more palatable to me if we decide we want to have a way of having EclipseLink select itself in place of Essentials.
I think I am not clear about what that means in terms of implementation. Can we explore that a bit. Here is my understanding if we go that route: 

    * Add (say) org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.ToplinkPersistenceProvider
      that extends org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider and
      related PersistenceInitializationHelper (say)
      ToplinkPersistenceInitializationHelper
    * ToplinkPersistenceInitializationHelper would wire up a subclass of
      JavaSECMPInitializer that would accept Toplink as provider
    * Will above classes be part of default eclipselink distribution as
      part of eclipselink.jar and org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jar?


I was thinking that the class would have the exact class name of the
TopLink provider - oracle.toplink.essentials.whatever.  No magic would
be needed to translate the class name in the application to the actual
class being used.  Ideally, that new class would be the one that would
translate the property names, but I don't know how this all fits together
to know if that's the right place to put that functionality.
That would be cleanest. However, AFAIK, the properties are processed at place in code that is not aware of how it is being invoked. We should look into having this implemented as above once we get into code to implement this. 

Thanks,
Mitesh



These new classes would be packaged in a separate jar file, a separate
OSGi module, that depends on the EclipseLink module.  A user could
uninstall that module and install the real TopLink module if they
wanted to.

Does that work?

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