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Xiaoqin Feng commented on OPENJPA-1437:
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> Implement a vendor extension mechanism for persistence.xml and orm.xml
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> Key: OPENJPA-1437
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-1437
> Project: OpenJPA
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 1.2.1
> Reporter: David M. Karr
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> OpenJPA 1.2.1 implements version 1.0 of the JPA specification. OpenJPA has
> some extensions that provide additional functionality, some of it identical
> to what is implemented in JPA version 2.0. For instance, the "@OrderColumn"
> annotation. This is something I need in my application, because the database
> I'm mapping to uses a join table for an ordered list, where the join table
> has a "SEQUENCE_NUM" column to specify the ordering.
> I've implemented my application only using "logical" JPA annotations, where
> the physical descriptions are in the orm.xml. Unfortunately, as there is no
> vendor extension mechanism for the orm.xml, I can't specify "order-column" in
> the orm.xml, so I have to specify it in the annotation. In addition, as the
> orm.xml attribute definition completely overrides any annotations for the
> same attribute, this means that for any attributes that I need to specify
> this ordering for, I have to put all the physical description (table, column,
> etc.) into the annotations for that field.
> This particular instance of this problem will go away when I eventually move
> to the JPA 2.0 implementation, but in the future the possibility still exists
> that I or someone else might find a custom OpenJPA mapping feature to be
> useful or necessary, and be forced to specify the entire attribute details in
> the annotation, instead of the ideal (in my opinion) arrangement with the
> logical annotation and physical xml.
> So, my suggestion is to somehow implement what the JPA specification didn't
> think of (that I can see), which is the ability to deploy a parallel
> OpenJPA-specific persistence.xml and orm.xml, where I can put the custom
> "order-column" element, to avoid having to do this in annotations.
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