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Re: JPA 2.0 Maven Artifact

From: Aleksei Valikov <aleksei.valikov_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:28:31 +0200

Hi,

>  Just wanted to clarify couple of points
> 1. EcliseLink maven repo location:
> Refer to http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Maven for official location of
> the repo. The location below points to one of the mirrors directly.
>
> 2. vendor-dependency:
> Obviously all the interface definition will be identical between
> javax.persitence.jar from various vendors. The difference may be in
> extensions provided by verndors. For example EclipseLink's
> javax.pesitence.jar is capable of functioning inside OSGI environment.

Ok, glad I did not misunderstand this.

Anyway, somehow I'm surprized that there's no standard
vendor-independent artifact uploaded to the central repo. This is a
usual practice to have javax.* APIs uploaded to the central
repository. Why is JPA 2 handled differently? Or am I missing
something?

Bye.
/lexi