Note that I don't think OpenJPA reads index names from the existing schema by default, so if you're adding fields or classes these might be plain old naming conflicts due to truncation based on database name length limits. There is a readSchema option on the mapping tool that forces it to read index and foreign key names and so forth, but it slows the tool down a lot for some DBs with slow schema reflection.
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