Re: OpenJPA annotations XML

2006-12-05 Thread Kevin Sutter
Patrick, Not getting a lot of activity on this thread yet... I'll kick in my two cents worth... I agree with your overall direction -- attempting to keep the annotation support in synch with the xml support as outlined in the JPA spec. All annotations defined by the JPA spec seem to have a corr

RE: OpenJPA annotations XML

2006-12-05 Thread Patrick Linskey
> As you have pointed out, this gets a bit trickier due to the > xml schema > definitions for the orm.xml file. We can't just define new > stanzas and > expect the orm.xml files to be portable across persistence providers. But do we care? That is, how do we want to balance portability vs. ease

Postgres known issues in doc

2006-12-05 Thread Jim Cullison
I'm interested in using OpenJPA for a project which would use Postgres. I noticed that it says "Empty string/char values are stored as NULL." in the known issues (http://incubator.apache.org/openjpa/docs/latest/manual/manual.html#dbsupport_postgresql_issues). Can anyone back that up with documen

Re: Postgres known issues in doc

2006-12-05 Thread roger.keays
Jim Cullison wrote: > > I'm interested in using OpenJPA for a project which would use Postgres. I > noticed that it says "Empty string/char values are stored as NULL." in the > known issues > (http://incubator.apache.org/openjpa/docs/latest/manual/manual.html#dbsupport_postgresql_issues). > Can

Re: OpenJPA annotations XML

2006-12-05 Thread roger.keays
Kevin Sutter wrote: > > As you have pointed out, this gets a bit trickier due to the xml schema > definitions for the orm.xml file. We can't just define new stanzas and > expect the orm.xml files to be portable across persistence providers. > But using an openjpa namespace still makes it vali

Re: Postgres known issues in doc

2006-12-05 Thread Jim Cullison
Thanks for confirming that the behavior is the same as what I am seeing. Maybe the documentation needs that line removed? Jim On 12/5/06, roger.keays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Empty strings store as empty strings for me on 7.4 and 8.1