Generally-speaking, you should be able to bootstrap new classes into OpenJPA over time. There are some situations that will prevent this (i.e., if exclude-unlisted-classes is set to true, and possibly some automatic class-scanning modes).
-Patrick -- Patrick Linskey BEA Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dain Sundstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 9:19 PM > To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Generation of entity classes > > Actually, never mind. Due to the interconnectedness of persistent > classes (i.e., relationships), I need to generate all the classes at > once and add them all to the class loader at the same time. This > means my "elegant" solution is just broken :) > > -dain > > On Dec 31, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote: > > > I working on an implementation of the EJB cmp specification which > > uses JPA under the covers to implement the persistence. I > have the > > basics working with hand written subclasses of the abstract cmp2 > > beans. I just wrote a code generator to replace my hand coded > > subclasses using ASM (which rocks), and I am having problems > > getting OpenJPA to enhance my generated class. It appears that at > > the moment I construct the EMF all entity classes must be > available > > via the temp class loader. If they are not, OpenJPA will not add > > an entry into the MetaData repository. Later when I generate my > > class and load it, the OpenJPA transformer looks for the MetaData > > in the repository, doesn't find it, and completely skips > > enhancement (PCEnhancer line 322). It is possible to have the > > enhancer fault load the metadata and continue with enhancement? > > > > In the mean time, I'm going to hack OpenEJB to kick off generation > > very early in deployment, but it would be much more elegant > to wait > > until the EJB is deployed to generate the classes and this happens > > after JPA is initialized. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -dain > >
