On 5/21/2012 11:50 AM, Antonio Goncalves wrote:
> Well I suppose you need an empty beans.xml to trigger CDI, an empty faces-config.xml to trigger JSF... you would then
> need an empty persistence.xml to trigger JPA.... makes sense.
>
Actually, my point was that the persistence.xml is not likely to be empty,
and less likely to be empty with support added for schema generation.
-Linda
> Ok
>
> Antonio
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Linda DeMichiel <linda.demichiel_at_oracle.com <mailto:linda.demichiel_at_oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Antonio, all,
>
>
> On 5/21/2012 1:16 AM, Antonio Goncalves wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking about the default datasource... and a default persistence.xml. With a default datasource, here is
> what a
> minimal persistence.xml could look like in a managed environment :
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/__xml/ns/persistence <http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence>"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/__2001/XMLSchema-instance <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance>"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://__java.sun.com/xml/ns/__persistence
> <http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence>
> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/__persistence/persistence_2_1.__xsd
> <http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd>"
> version="2.1">
>
> <persistence-unit name="defaultPU" transaction-type="JTA">
> *<jta-data-source>java:global/__defaultDataSource</jta-data-__source>*
>
>
> By default, a JTA datasource is to be provided in Java EE container environments,
> so this will come for free :-)
>
>
> <properties>
> <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/>
> </properties>
> </persistence-unit>
> </persistence>
>
> I don't know what are the plans on the JPA 2.1 expert group, but it would be great to standardise more
> properties, like
> the generation of tables at deployment. So we could have something like
>
>
> This area is currently under discussion in the JPA EG. Please see my proposal on schema
> generation and feel free to chime in over there.
>
> <persistence-unit name="defaultPU" transaction-type="JTA">
> <jta-data-source>java:global/__defaultDataSource</jta-data-__source>
> <properties>
> *<property name="javax.persistence.__generateddl" value="create-drop"/>*
>
> </properties>
> </persistence-unit>
>
> If we have all the needed configuration by default, then, why not having a default persistence.xml with a default
> persistence unit being produced by the container ? We could just then write (without any extra configuration) :
>
>
> We had this discussion in the JPA 1.0 days, and experts were pretty much of the opinion that a
> persistence.xml would be needed anyway for configuration. Schema generation properties will
> presumably add to this. Again, feel free to raise the issue to the JPA 2.1 EG.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Linda
>
> @Stateless
> public class MyService {
>
> @Inject
> private EntityManager entityManager;
> }
>
> Again, that's inreasing the easy of development. Any thoughts ?
>
> Antonio
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Adam Bien <abien_at_adam-bien.com <mailto:abien_at_adam-bien.com>
> <mailto:abien_at_adam-bien.com <mailto:abien_at_adam-bien.com>>> wrote:
>
>
> On 22.03.2012, at 23:23, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
>
> > In view of the feedback we've received on this issue, our conclusion is
> > that we should adopt approach 3.
> >
> > To summarize, in the data source case, the following will apply:
> >
> > The Java EE Platform requires that a Java EE Product Provider
> > provide a database in the operational environment. The Java EE
> > Product Provider must also provide a preconfigured, default data
> > source for use by the application in accessing this database.
> >
> > The Java EE Product Provider must make the default data source
> > accessible to the application under the JNDI name
> > java:comp/defaultDataSource.
> >
> > The Application Component Provider or Deployer may explicitly bind a
> > DataSource resource reference to the default data source using the
> > lookup element of the Resource annotation or the lookup-name element
> > of the resource-ref deployment descriptor element. For example,
> >
> > @Resource(name="myDataSource", lookup="java:comp/__defaultDataSource")
> > DataSource myDS;
>
> +1 but:
>
> @Inject
> DataSource myDS; should work as well. (I would require a default producer to do the job).
> >
> > If a DataSource resource reference is not mapped to a specific data
> > source by the Application Component Provider or Deployer, it must be
> > mapped by the Java EE Product Provider to a preconfigured data source
> > for the Java EE Product Provider's default database. For example, in
> > the absence of any action on the part of the developer or deployer,
> > the following will map to a preconfigured data source for the
> > product's default database:
> >
> > @Resource(name="myDataSource")
> > DataSource myDS;
> >
> >
> > And similarly for default JMS Connection Factory, whose JNDI name is
> > java:comp/__defaultJMSConnectionFactory.
> >
> >
> > -Linda
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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