RE: List of entity classes

From: Douglas Clarke <DOUGLAS.CLARKE_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 04:15:35 -0800 (PST)

Gary,

TopLink Essentials has its own native metamodel you can use as well. Do you have access to an EntityManagerFactory in your usage or just managed EntityManager instances?

Doug
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Gary Jacobson [mailto:gtjacobson_at_gmail.com]
  Sent: March 1, 2010 3:52 AM
  To: persistence_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
  Subject: Re: List of entity classes

  Thanks Doug

  Unfortunately I am stuck with Toplink Essentials 2.0... do you know of any equivalent class/method I could use?

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Douglas Clarke <DOUGLAS.CLARKE_at_oracle.com>
    To: persistence_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
    Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:24:22 -0800 (PST)
    Subject: RE: List of entity classes

    If you are using the latest JPA 2.0 version of EclipseLink you can use:

    EntityManagerFactory.getMetamodel();

    Doug
      -----Original Message-----
      From: Gary Jacobson [mailto:gtjacobson_at_gmail.com]
      Sent: February 25, 2010 7:00 AM
      To: persistence_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
      Subject: List of entity classes

      Hi all

      Is there any way to retrieve a list of the entity classes available in the application? (i.e. any class with @Entity annotated)

      The only way I can think to do this is to use native SQL to get a list of all database table names, convert them to class names by using my naming convention, and loading each class via reflection.

      I would guess that there must be some internal toplink utility class which maintains a list.

      Thanks
      Gary