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[jpa-spec users] [jsr338-experts] Re: support for multitenancy

From: Steve Ebersole <steve.ebersole_at_redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:16:50 -0500

On 04/10/2012 11:33 AM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
>
>
> On 4/10/2012 9:26 AM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>>>>>> Ideally, the management of the tenant id should be transparent to the
>>>>>> application, although we should revisit this in Java EE 8 as we move
>>>>>> further into support for SaaS.
>>>>>
>>>>> For the application to not have to manage tenant ids, I guess the
>>>>> tenant identifier
>>>>> would need to be available to the provider on a per-invocation basis
>>>>> (in a thread
>>>>> context set by the container)? As you mention, not something that we
>>>>> necessarily have to worry about now, but just so we know what we will
>>>>> need
>>>>> in the future if this is what we want.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Right. For shared application instances we will need this.
>>>
>>> You had said this would be available via ENC/JNDI before I think?
>>
>> Will the tenant identifier be available in ENC/JNDI regardless of
>> strategy being used?
>>
>
> Yes

And will it be available from JNDI when the EMF is being built?