On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Andrei Ilitchev
<andrei.ilitchev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eclipselink can do that, too. See
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_EclipseLink_JPA_Extensions_(ELUG)
Using EclipseLink JPA Extensions for Schema Generation
No, it can't, if by that link you were attempting to point me at eclipselink.ddl-generation and its related properties.
I'm very much aware of the fact that EclipseLink can generate entire schemas automatically (eclipselink.ddl-generation etc.) That's not what I want. I'm creating my tables already by hand for many reasons.
But I'm not, at the moment, inserting rows into my (hand-created) sequence table that I refer to from my @TableGenerators.
So, again, my sequence table is already created, as are the tables for my entities. Some of them have default data in them. I have never inserted explicit rows, however, into my sequence table, largely because OpenJPA and Hibernate do that initial insertion for me; I just assumed EclipseLink did too. But now I think I'm discovering that no, it doesn't.
Again, Hibernate and OpenJPA both allow you to simply create an empty sequence table, refer to it with @TableGenerator annotations, and they take care of seeding it with initial values. I had been under the impression that this was specification-mandated behavior, but this seems to be a gray area.
Best,
Laird
