On 11/29/2011 12:25 PM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
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> On 11/29/2011 11:08 AM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
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>> 7.4
>> EntityManagerFactory.addNamedQuery
>> As I raised initially, I'm still unclear how a user would properly use this feature. Where in his code would it add a
>> new named query and make sure this has not been added before. To me it'd be preferable to have some initialization
>> hook to set such queries. I'm happy to change my mind but I looked up my emails and I don't think anyone came up with
>> a use case for the current proposed form.
>> Note that this also avoid a bunch of concurrent safe structures as well but that's impl details.
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>> See the thread named Re: named queries and my exchange with Gordon from April 28th forward.
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> OK. Unfortunately, we don't have a well-defined initialization sequence, and the EMF
> may be created by the container before application code gets to execute. However, a
> startup singleton EJB's postConstruct could be used for adding named queries, or a
> servlet init method. In the mean time, do you think addNamedQuery has so little
> value that we should remove it?
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Cancel that last question. I've just been trading emails with one of the members
of the users list, who immediately urged me not to even think of taking this away!
-Linda