Hi Martin, This is an interesting approach. I'll probably use it.
I've used the lifecycle event annotations with Toplink/glassfish, and they're really nice because you know they'll always get called. But, I suppose this will have to do. Thanks. Greg Martin Homik wrote: > > I use Hibernate as persistence framework, but just declaring a class as an > Entity Listener and a method to do pre persistence does not work. > Hibernate's annotation documentation doesn't say anything about how to > apply lifecycle events in this case. I'm lacking the knowledge how to > that. > > Meanwhile, Franco Ferndandes submitted to me answers on his post, > basically saying that "experts recommended that I do not rely on this > method only because it is not portable between diff JPA providers. So you > would actually do this create a stub method prepersist () in base and call > it in save() and then for every descendant just override your > prepersist()." > > Martin > > > > gederer wrote: >> >> I just read that the lifecycle event annotations only work in conjunction >> with an EntityManager. I'm using Hibernate for persistence. Can anyone >> say whether this works with JPA? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Greg >> >> >> Martin Homik wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone tell how to use Entity Listeners in AppFuse? I ran into the >>> same problems as already mentioned in >>> http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=11144501&framed=y&skin=2369 >>> this thread . Unfortunately, nobody posted any solution and I'd like to >>> pick up that topic. >>> >>> In my case I want to use @PrePersist to assign correct date values. If >>> the date field is annotated with "nullable=false" then a >>> DataIntegrityViolationException is thrown. If I set nullable to true and >>> run a DAO test then I can see that the date field is never set which >>> would mean that the EntityListener is never triggered. >>> >>> Maybe something in a configuration file has to be set? Any idea? >>> >>> Thanks a lot, >>> Martin >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Entity-Listener-tf4594510s2369.html#a13224818 Sent from the AppFuse - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
