Hi Rex, It looks to me from the spec that it's fine to do this for each persistence provider and jdbc driver:
1. create a maven project to bundleize the jar, like we have in our "bundle" projects 2. install the result in g. however we want, such as assembling a server that includes it. 3. include whatever package imports are actually needed for the enhanced application classes to work in the geronimo plan for the app. This might not be the most user friendly possible approach, but it looks like it complies with the requirements and doesn't require any coding on our part. Assuming this approach is spec compliant, I would rather wait a bit on anything fancier until we know what the geronimo deployment plans are going to look like. There might be an osgi spec under development on how to deal with enhancing classes. If it exists and is accessible it might be worthwhile to see if it has anything to offer. What do you think? thanks david jencks On Apr 5, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Rex Wang wrote: > typo.. > ejb-3_0-fr-spec-persistence.xml -> ejb-3_0-fr-spec-persistence.pdf > http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr220/index.html > > 2011/4/6 Rex Wang <[email protected]> > > 2011/4/6 David Jencks <[email protected]> > Hi Rex, > > I too would like to know which parts of the spec cover this. > Hi, > The use case should be extracted from the ejb-3_0-fr-spec-persistence.xml, it > seems not be well tested in Java EE 5 TCK. The descriptions are: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 7 Container and Provider Contracts for Deployment and Bootstrapping > 7.1 Java EE Deployment > 7.1.1 Responsibilities of the Container > .... > Once the container has read the persistence metadata, it determines the > javax.persistence. > spi.PersistenceProvider implementation class for each deployed named > persistence > unit. It creates an instance of this implementation class and invokes the > createContainerEntityManagerFactory > method on that instance. The metadata—in the form of a Persistence- > UnitInfo class—is passed to the persistence provider as part of this call. > The factory obtained as a > result will be used by the container to create container-managed entity > managers. Only one EntityManagerFactory > is permitted to be created for each deployed persistence unit configuration. > Any number of > EntityManager instances may be created from a given factory. > ...... > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > JBoss is also dealing with this, ref https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-9040 > > > > for (1), karaf already has a wrap deployer based (I think) on a pax project. > It uses bnd under the covers and results in (I think) dynamic imports for all > the packages used by the wrapped jar. We also need to be careful not to wrap > something that is already a bundle. It may also be spec compliant to ask the > server administrator to convert the jpa provider jar(s) into bundles. I > really doubt the lib directory is mentioned in the spec.... if it is the > entire spec committee was asleep... > Yes, no "lib" mentioned. The use case is just one example.. The actual > problem is we must provide the ability to convert a jar to osgi bundle so > that the vendor provider jar can be used in our server. Further more, the > jdbc driver jars also meet the same situation. > > for (2), I think we should wait a few days. In my private work on > architecture I've eliminated the dependencies in Environment. With the > possible exception of base classes related to enhancement, I don't think the > application actually needs access to the jpa provider classes. Does anyone > know or can anyone figure out what provider imports are needed to make > openjpa work? Aries might have solved this problem.... > IIUC, should be org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl > > > thanks > david jencks > > > > On Apr 5, 2011, at 2:16 AM, Rex Wang wrote: > >> HI Devs, >> >> These days I am looking into this new feature that we need implement to >> comply the Java EE 6 Spec. >> >> This feature requires the ability to "plug-in" a vendor JPA Provider to the >> Java EE server, and the JPA app can "pick-up" the vendor provider and get >> >> the corresponding EntityManagerFactory. That is, let's take a use case for >> example, the steps are: >> a. User put a Oracle topLink.jar into the server's lib folder. >> b. In the JPA app's persistence.xml, specify the provider as following: >> >> <provider>oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider</provider> >> Then the entity manager factory should be created from the toplink's >> EntityManagerFactoryProvider by our server. >> >> >> Currently, we don't have such ability because of the following obstacles: >> 1. We are running server on OSGi framework. There is not way to just put-in >> a jar file and make it work for other Bundles' classloader. >> 2. We are tight coupling the JPA20 builder to Openjpa. In the >> PersistenceUnitBuilder, we set the defaultEnvironment with: >> <dependencies> >> <dependency> >> <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.configs</groupId> >> <artifactId>openjpa2</artifactId> >> <version>${version}</version> >> <type>car</type> >> </dependency> >> </dependencies> >> This will add all the export-packages from openjpa to the JPA app bundle >> when deploy, but it is actually useless for the ones specified other vendor >> providers. >> >> >> For #1, I think we should add the ability to convert a normal jar to OSGi >> bundle. I looked into the maven-bundle-plugin, and the aQute bndlib should >> be a good tool to do this. We can just provide the basic function that wrap >> a jar and: >> Export-Package: * >> Import-Package: <packages inside the target jar> >> to make it as bundle. And in the long term, we can provide a portlet in >> admin console for user to customizing his bundle. >> >> For #2, User need input the dependency in the jpa app's deployment plan and >> specify to the bundle generated by geronimo in #1, such as: >> <dependencies> >> <dependency> >> <groupId>geronimo.generated.bundles</groupId> >> <artifactId>topLink</artifactId> >> <version>1.0</version> >> <type>jar</type> >> </dependency> >> </dependencies> >> Then all the topLink export-packages will be imported by the jpa app bundle >> of user. We won't need merge the defaultEnviroment(i.e. openjpa) in the >> PersistenceUnitBuilder if use specify a vendor provider in persistence.xml. >> Another approach is we can add the imports >> "oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3;" when analyzing the persistence.xml in >> PersistenceUnitBuilder so that user won't need manually add a deployment >> plan and input the dependency. >> >> >> Any comments? >> >> -- >> Lei Wang (Rex) >> rwonly AT apache.org > > > > > -- > Lei Wang (Rex) > rwonly AT apache.org > > > > -- > Lei Wang (Rex) > rwonly AT apache.org
