What Pinaki mentioned below could be the cause of my error (See Help needed
with JBoss and openJPA thread)

Do I really need to keep the Geromino.* jars in the lib path of JBoss?


Pinaki Poddar wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>    javax.persistence.Persistence class as supplied in the distributed
> version of jpa.jar has more than one shortcomings (in order of descending
> criticality) :
> 
> 1. This Persistence class statically caches all the persistence provider
> implementations. This static caching of implementation classes breaks when
> an application is undeployed and redeployed again in an Application Server
> because the classloader of a statically cached version goes out of scope.
> 
> 2. The error handling in Persistence needs improvement because if any of
> the provider implementation fails to load then other (possibly valid)
> providers do not get a chance to activate themselves.
> 
> 3. The order in which Persistence class attempts to load the providers (as
> in this reported case) is indeterminate and unspecified. 
> 
> 4. The error reporting when things go bad (often for the uninitiated)
> needs to be more informative or user-friendly.
> 
> This problem has been encountered [1] and I had supplied a patch to
> GlassFish [2] -- however, I do not know when (or whether) this patch will
> find its way in the distributed version of jpa.jar.
> 
> If there is interest, a patch that addresses the abovementioned issues is
> available with me.
> 
> Regards --      
> 
> [1]
> http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/pinaki.poddar/archive/2007/06/the_promise_of.html
> (see to the end of the post)
> [2] https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2814 (the patch
> in Glassfish repository)
> 
> 
> Michael Vorburger-4 wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Is there any particular reason why OpenJPA uses the
>> geronimo-jpa_3.0_spec-1.0.jar instead of the
>> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.persistence/persistence-api/1.0
>> from https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/persistence/
>> (https://glassfish.dev.java.net/source/browse/glassfish/persistence-api/). 
>> Is it OSS Licensing mess, use of a CDDL API JAR in a APL libraray a
>> problem?
>> 
>> BTW: I noticed that the persistence-api-1.0-sources.jar (e.g. from
>> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/javax/persistence/persistence-api/1.0/)
>> have JavaDoc... while the geronimo-jpa_3.0_spec-1.0-sources.jar or
>> geronimo-jpa_3.0_spec-1.0-javadoc.jar don't.  If you use "Source
>> Attachment" in e.g. Eclipse this is handy...
>> 
>> Would there be any risk if locally we overwrote dependencies so that
>> developers in our org would use OpenJPA with the persistence-api-1.0.jar
>> instead of the geronimo-jpa_3.0_spec-1.0.jar (in order to have JavaDoc
>> Help in Eclipse?).  Probably not - why would there be?  Is this "allowed"
>> (more out of curiosity), license wise?  Presumably yes?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Michael Vorburger
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick Linskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> Sent: vendredi, 29. février 2008 01:42
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: multiple persistence-units, each w different provider
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I think that the official copy is the one at Glassfish.
>> 
>> -Patrick
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>> I have three persistence-unit nodes in my persistence.xml: one for 
>>> Toplink with  the toplink provider specified, one for Hibernate, and one
>>> for OpenJPA.
>>>
>>>  It tests various operations in JPA, configured to use whichever JPA 
>>> supplier I  specify at the time, i.e. I just change the name of the 
>>> persistence-unit I pass  to Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory().
>>>
>>>  So I have, for instance at the moment, not only openjpa.jar on the 
>>> classpath,  but also hibernate-entitymanager.jar and
>>> toplink-essentials.jar.
>>>
>>>  When running my test, due to the way 
>>> javax.persistence.Persistence.class is  programmed, any of those 
>>> providers may be picked for use, without reference to  the name of the 
>>> persistence-unit name that I specified when calling
>>>  createEntityManagerFactory() - somewhat surprisingly!
>>>
>>>  If my memory serves me well, the persistence-api.jar that I am using 
>>> is just the  one that maven downloaded automatically from the global jar
>>> repo.
>>>
>>>  I'm tempted to create my own javax.persistence.Persistence to do it 
>>> properly and  position it ahead of the persistence-api.jar on my
>>> classpath.
>>>
>>>  This just doesn't seem right. I guess I should be asking at Sun. Was 
>>> it Sun who  wrote javax.persistence.Persistence ? Or are there 
>>> different versions? Is there  an 'OpenJPA persistence-api'?
>>>
>>>  Has anyone here written their own and made it publicly available?
>>>
>>>
>>>  Thanks
>>>  Adam
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Patrick Linskey
>> 202 669 5907
>> 
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