Well, but the spec explicitly says that you shouldn't count on the order to be same across contexts. There is a cost to do an 'order by' clause, and if all what I want is to arrange my objects in a list (because I want to use list API calls), I have to pay the cost, and there is no option for me.
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Pinaki Poddar <ppod...@apache.org> wrote: > A persistent property declared as a list maintains its order across > persistence contexts is a useful feature. It does not sound unnecessary to > me as an user. If the user does not require the order, the field can be > declared as Collection or Set. Why to take away an useful feature? > >
