Harold - I'm quite surprised that we don't throw an exception, or warning in this case also. In the case that you mentioned, I assume MyInterface isn't an Entity type and doesn't extend Serializable?
Thanks, Rick On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Harald Wellmann < hwellmann...@googlemail.com> wrote: > In a code review of an application using OpenJPA 2.1.1 with > persistence mapping by annotations, I've just come across an entity > class with a non-primitive field which is not annotated: > > private MyInterface myInterface; > > I would have put a @Transient annotation on that field (or better > still, removed it from the model), but what surprises me is that > OpenJPA silently treats this field as transient and does not complain > about a missing @Transient annotation. > > We use build time enhancement, and I can see no warnings from OpenJPA > either at build time or at run-time. > > According to the JPA 2.0 spec, section 2.3.1, "all non-transient > instance variables that are not annotated with the Transient > annotation are persistent.", so I'd really expect OpenJPA to complain > that MyInterface is not mapped. > > What do you think? > > Best regards, > Harald > -- *Rick Curtis*
