correct way to load persistent metadata at startup

[Heather Sterling]

I am attempting to load all the persistent class metadata eagerly.  I
realize this isn't great performance-wise, but I need to do it for the
time-being.   I had wanted to call:

            ClassMetaData[] classMetaDatas =
conf.getMetaDataRepositoryInstance().getMetaDatas();

but realized the data was loaded lazily when nothing came back.  I switched
to using:);

Collection c = conf.getMetaDataRepositoryInstance().loadPersistentTypes(.
true, null);

which returned the classes to me, but getMetaDatas() still returned
nothing.  Finally, I resorted to iterating through the class names, which
seemed to work.

            Set names = conf.getMetaDataRepositoryInstance
().getPersistentTypeNames(false, null);
            if (names != null) {
                for (Iterator it = names.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
                    String persistentClassname = (String)it.next();
                    System.out.println("Pre-loading metadata for: " +
persistentClassname);
                    try {
                    ClassMetaData cc = conf.getMetaDataRepositoryInstance
().getMetaData(Class.forName(persistentClassname), null, true);
                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }

                }
            }

I found a link regarding a potential openjpa property called
openjpa.InitializeEagerly (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-620) but it was never checked
into a release.

Given all these options, what is the correct way to load the metadata on
startup?


Heather Sterling
Systems Management Development
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Email: hst...@us.ibm.com