Re: [eclipselink-users] EclipseLink 2.5 now Available

[Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

På onsdag 29. mai 2013 kl. 14:43:52, skrev Tom Ware <tom.ware@xxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi Joseph,

   EclipseLink has always had a pretty extensive converter API, JPA 2.1 has
simply formalized more of it.  It should be reasonably easy to write converters
for the various joda-time data structures.

   Can you please describe a bit more what you mean by converters
auto-registering themselves?

 

Ok, so I understand there is no drop-in library for joda-time converters for JPA-2.1.

 

By autoregistering I mean I just have to set the JPA-property jadira.usertype.autoRegisterUserTypes=true and have the usertype.core.jar in the classpath and I can use joda-time's classes without doing anything else. This is due to Hibernate-4.x's integrator-API http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.0/devguide/en-US/html/ch07.html#integrators

 

I see JPA-2.1 provides a @Converter(autoApply=true) annotation, does this make the provider, EclipseLink, pick up the converter automatically and use it for all mappings?

 

BTW; I'm using Hibernate in a non-JEE container, Tomcat, and am looking for similar configuration working with EclipseLink.

 

Thanks.

 

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