The JPA specification is silent on the issue of what should happen if a @TableGenerator refers to a table with no rows in it.
OpenJPA does the sensible thing, which is to insert a new row, with the specified pkColumnValue and initialValue in it. Hibernate appears to do this as well. However, EclipseLink does not do this. Did the OpenJPA folks do this because they thought it was a nice thing to do, or because they were under the impression the specification implied it? Thanks, Laird -- http://about.me/lairdnelson
