Hello David, To your last question: The SUN spec says
"In addition to returning and setting the persistent state of the instance, the property accessor methods may contain other business logic as well, for example, to perform validation. The persistence provider runtime executes this logic when property-based access is used." openJPA follows this in offering the two possibilities of accessing. The openJPA manual says "JPA offers two modes of persistent state access: field access, and property access. To use property access, set your entity element's access attribute to PROPERTY, or place your metadata and mapping annotations on the getter method. Each class must use either field access or property access for all state; you cannot use both access types within the same class." The whole problem is that the described way to choose the property access by placing the annotations at the getter methods does not show any effects. More worse openJPA throws an org.apache.openjpa.util.UserException (as described) and does not choose any of the two alternative ways. This exceptions sounds as if the annotations set at the getter methods were not reckognized when parsing the entity classes. The question for me is: Have I to do something more (or have I chosen the wrong annotations or what ever) to get this code working? The test with jboss was done to see whether there also an error would be visible, but it was not. I agree that this gives no final security about the compliance of jboss. Indeed my aim is to get the thing working on geronimo/openJPA! Thanks for any help Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: David Jencks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 23:30 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: AW: Problems using openJPA On Jul 17, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Ueberbach, Michael wrote: > Hi Jacek, > > I had to make a little break, now I'm trying to get back to the last > situation. > > Following your last advices: > > reducing the persistance.xml to the neccessary elements works for > deploying, but does not help in fetching data. In fact the same > exception (...Could not locate metadata for the class ...) is thrown. > > I checked the code again: > - no field is annotated > - every getter is annotated (at least with @Basic) > - every other method named with get... Is annotated @Transient > > Therefore the access type has to be clear (= PROPERTY). > Nevertheless this is not recognized. > > So I've tried two things: > > First: > I put a xml mapping file (orm.xml) inside the deployment jar, where I > explicitly set the access type to PROPERTY for all classes. > The deployment works, but the warning > > "<1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-SNAPSHOT nonfatal user error> > org.apache.openjpa.util.UserException: Type > "de.lama.sample3.stammdaten.ejb.PersonBean" attempts to use both field > and property access. Only one access method is permitted." > > remains and the method call still doesn't work. > > Second: > I deployed the whole stuff unchanged (except the deployment plan) to a > jboss server(4.04) to compare the results. Here everything works as > expected. > > As result it seems to me that if there isn't an error inside the > deployed code that jboss does not find, there must be something wrong > with parsing the classes annotations in geronimo resp. openjpa. I haven't looked into your problem in detail, but I don't think you can conclude from hibernate's ability to deploy an app X that X is entirely spec compliant and can be deployed on all other compliant jpa implementations. Out of curiousity why are you using property access? I have yet to understand why anyone would do this given a choice.... hoping for enlightenment. thanks david jencks > > > regards > Michael > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Ueberbach, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Juli 2007 18:06 > An: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: AW: Problems using openJPA > > Hi Jacek, > > Thanks for your hints. To the first point: I've already seen this in > the spec. I'm quite shure there is no access via the instance > variables (but I will prove it again). I will also try to eliminate > the entries in persistance.xml that are not neccessary. I'll tell the > results as soon as possible. > > Michael > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Jacek > Laskowski > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Juli 2007 11:19 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Problems using openJPA > > On 7/10/07, Ueberbach, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello Jacek, >> >> meanwhile I'm able to send the jar I deployed to geronimo. I attach >> it to this mail, sources should be included. Also the persistence.xml >> that is used. >> As you can see I put @Basic annotations to all property getters >> explicitly (although I think this should be default) to make shure >> that access should be done by property (and not by field). >> Nevertheless this seems not be recognized by openJPA. It would be >> great if you have any idea why and what should be done. > > Hi Michael, > > I've just started looking into it, but thought I'd tell you that when > you use property-based access (via getters) you should not access the > entity state via instance fields. > > You don't need to specify vendor element in the persistence.xml file. > Geronimo defaults to OpenJPA. According to the spec (6.2.1.4 provider > p.135): > > The provider element must be specified if the application is dependent > upon a particular persistence provider being used. > > You don't need to specify class elements in Java EE env (as opposed to > Java SE env). The container looks for other files unless exclude- > unlisted-classes element is specified (which is not the case in your > example). > > See if that helps out. Going to spot other (mis)uses of the spec that > might cause the trouble. > > Jacek > > -- > Jacek Laskowski > http://www.JacekLaskowski.pl
