Yes, otherwise the javax.persistence.Persistence class will need access
to an XML library to create the PersistenceUnitInfo from the persistence.xml
--Gordon
On 11/12/2012 1:54 PM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
> PersistenceProvider has the following method, which subsumes this
> functionality:
>
> public void generateSchema(PersistenceUnitInfo info, Map map);
>
>
> We don't need both, do we?
>
>
>
> On 12/11/2012 6:59 AM, Gordon Yorke wrote:
>> After some review it seems to me that PersistenceProvider is missing
>> the following method:
>>
>> /**
>> * Create database schemas and/or tables and/or create DDL
>> * scripts as determined by the supplied properties.
>> * <p>
>> * Called by the Persistence class when schema generation is to
>> * occur as a separate phase from creation of the entity
>> * manager factory.
>> * <p>
>> * @param persistenceUnitName the name of the persistence unit
>> * @param map properties for schema generation; these may
>> * also contain provider-specific properties. The
>> * value of these properties override any values that
>> * may have been configured elsewhere..
>> * @throws PersistenceException if insufficient or inconsistent
>> * configuration information is provided of if schema
>> * generation otherwise fails
>> *
>> * @since Java Persistence 2.1
>> */
>> public void generateSchema(String persistenceUnitName, Map map);
>>
>> as currently there is no support for the
>> Persistence.generateSchema(String, Map) method.
>>
>> --Gordon