From: Craig L Russell <Craig.Russell_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:12:42 -0700

Personally, I like your idea of using an easy-to-remember name like
oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider as an "alias" for the
actual implementation class.

Kudos.

Craig

On Aug 4, 2006, at 7:10 AM, Tom Ware wrote:

> Gordon is correct. The
> oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider class is intended to
> provide a more intuitive way of specifying the persistence
> provider. I expect both
> oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider and
> oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider to
> continue working indefinitely.
>
> -Tom
>
> Gordon Yorke wrote:
>
>> Not speaking for Tom but we wanted a 'better' name for the public
>> PersistenceProvider class that would be referenced by users.
>> Think of it as a simple public wrapper.
>> --Gordon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> *From:* Sanjeeb.Sahoo_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Sanjeeb.Sahoo_at_Sun.COM]*On
>> Behalf Of *Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo
>> *Sent:* Friday, August 04, 2006 2:41 AM
>> *To:* persistence_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>> *Subject:* What is the use of
>> oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider.class?
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> What is the use of
>> oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider.class which is just
>> an empty class as shown below:
>>
>> /package oracle.toplink.essentials;
>>
>> import
>> oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider;
>>
>> /**
>> * This is the TopLink EJB 3.0 provider
>> */
>> public class PersistenceProvider extends
>> EntityManagerFactoryProvider {
>>
>> }
>>
>> /We in GlassFish use
>>
>> oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider as
>> the persistence provider. Is there a potential mismatch here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sahoo
>>

Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell_at_sun.com
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!