Hi Tim,
Just following up.
I never understood why *static* inner classes could not be Entities.
I'm just guessing that some vendors didn't like them for some reason.
But non-static inner classes would be more like dependent classes
whose existence depended upon the existence of the owning
Hi, I'm wondering if there is any documentation, specifications, and/or known
rules that govern the usage of Inner Classes as Entities ?? I haven't been able
to find any although I do see a couple of examples of the @Entity being used on
inner classes in some of the OpenJPA testcases.
Good question, Tim.
The JPA spec indicates that an Entity needs to be a top-level class (section
2.1 of JPA 2.0 spec). But, I noticed in our OpenJPA documentation that we
have overridden the ability to define an Entity as final class with final
methods. Section 1 [1] of the documentation
