Sorry about the confusion - as Mitesh clarifies, JPA 2.0 API is vendor-
independent. There are only several different repository locations you
can use.
Petr
On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Aleksei Valikov wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> the truth is that your persistence implementation will be vendor-
>> dependent
>> (you have to make a choice between Hibernate, EclipseLink and
>> Kodo), so you
>> will end up with vendor-dependent code anyway.
>
> I do not understand why JPA 2.0 API JAR should be vendor-dependent. It
> contradicts the whole idea of having a standardized public API.
>
> I only need a JAR which contains standard JPA things - those under
> javax.persistence.* packages.
>
> With JPA 1 I'm successfully writing vendor-independent JPA code (by
> using standard annotations only). Are you telling me that this has
> changed in JPA 2?
>
> Bye.
> /lexi