Adam's observations seem in synch with mine. Although I don't have personal experience with storing localized data, I have exchanged e-mails with a few people who have attempted it with the OpenJPA Entity Listeners. No "reference accounts" per se, but it does seem doable.
Kevin On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Adam Hardy <adam....@cyberspaceroad.com>wrote: > Simone Gianni on 01/02/09 22:11, wrote: > >> Hi all, >> the problem of having a database containing localized data is quite >> common, and a number of ways to do it are used here and there on the >> internet. >> >> What is, from your experience or from your knowledge of JPA, the best way >> of doing it in JPA? Are there any recommendation or study papers on this? >> (Google seems to find nothing unseful). >> >> Does the JPA 2.0 specs adds some useful new features for this problem? >> > > One project which I worked on in the past which was pre-JPA had this > requirement. > > The language strings were heavily cached and not mapped as part of any > entity bean, rather added to the bean post-select by a listener. > > It worked well. > > Regards > Adam > >
