[news.eclipse.technology.dali] Re: what would it meant to use "Generic"

[neil.hauge@xxxxxxxxxx (Neil Hauge)]

Hi Tom,

You are speaking of our "Platform" concept, which is a setting that 
determines the way the Dali tooling will function, based on the 
implementation of the Platform selected.  The Generic platform exists to 
provide spec compliant JPA tooling, which assists with the creation of JPA 
artifacts and metadata that can be used on any JPA implementation.  This 
is a good choice if there isn't a specific platform available for your 
chosen JPA implementation, or you want to be sure that non-portable 
metadata isn't used in your artifacts.

By selecting a non-Generic platform, the tooling will usually provide a 
richer configuration experience, catered to a given JPA implementation.  
For the EclipseLink Platform, this will provide additional UI for 
configuring persistence.xml, XML mapping files, Java annotations, and 
change validation where appropriate.

The EclipseLink bundles themselves do not contain the Dali EclispeLink 
Platform.

Hope this helps,
Neil


Tom H wrote:

> Hi,

> I am just starting out on with Dali/JPA/eclipseLink...

> In the Project Properties->JPA->Platform , I can select EclipseLink or 
> Generic.

> 1) What does it mean to select generic?

> 2) Are those options to the Dali plugins provided by the eclipselink 
> bundles in the dropin folder?

> Thanks,

> T