See this discussion in the mailing list of OpenJPA: http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/OpenJPA-support-for-JPA-2-1-when-td7584157.html
It looks like the JPA provider wouldn't be ready for Tomee@JavaEE 7.0. I guess the Hibernate LGPL will be the candidate (not bundled in the tomee zip). This decision would speedup the release. -- View this message in context: http://tomee-openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/TomEE-plans-for-Java-EE-7-tp4663386p4672719.html Sent from the TomEE Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.