[news.eclipse.technology.dali] Re: Project without annotaions in the mod

[karen.moore@xxxxxxxxxx (Karen Butzke)]

> Is it possible to create a JPA project and a mapping without annotions 
> in the model classes and only in the persistence or eclipselink-orm.xml 
> file?
> When yes, which swith / option I have to use for this?

Yes, it is possible to edit your mappings via the orm.xml or 
eclipselink-orm.xml instead of using annotations.  Dali does not yet 
support entity generation into an orm.xml file, only annotations.  But you 
can create a new eclipselink-orm.xml file (choose New -> EclipseLink 
Mapping File) and then open it in the JPA perspective and you will notice 
the JPA details view and JPA structure view.  In the JPA structure view 
just right click on the Entity Mappings and choose to 'Add class...'.  
Then you can edit all of the mapping information using the JPA 
details/structure views.  You will see all of the attribute mapping 
defaults from the java in the structure view.  You can right-click on 
these add them to the xml and then edit them in the JPA details view.
Hope this helps!

Karen