JPA 2.1 (Java EE 7) – working persistence.xml file

I finally got a working persistence.xml for Java EE 7 up and running! With JPA 2.1 generation of the schema is now standardized. This means that you don’t have to use implementation specific flags, such as “eclipselink.ddl-generation” to auto-generate the schema. With Java EE 7, the location of the schema files/namespace has also changed. Below is a working file.

<persistence version="2.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence" 
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence 
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/jsc/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd">
    <persistence-unit name="actionbazaar2" transaction-type="JTA">
        <jta-data-source>jdbc/actionbazaar2</jta-data-source>
        <properties>
            <property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action" value="create"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.scripts.action" value="drop-and-create"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.scripts.drop-target" value="/tmp/mydrop.ddl"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.scripts.create-target" value="/tmp/mycreate.ddl"/>
            <property name="eclipselink.deploy-on-startup" value="true"/>
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

This works on Glassfish 4 b84. At this point the files have to be included per defect GLASSFISH-19862. Note this is using a milestone release of EclipseLink M10 to be exact. To your pom.xml file you will need the following entries for Eclipselink and Java EE 7 respectively:

<repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>java.net-promoted</id>
            <url>https://maven.java.net/content/groups/promoted/</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <url>http://download.eclipse.org/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo/</url>
            <id>eclipselink</id>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <name>Repository for library EclipseLink (JPA 2.x)</name>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency> 
            <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
            <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa</artifactId>
            <version>2.5.0-M10</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>  
            <groupId>javax</groupId>  
            <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>  
            <version>7.0-b77</version>  
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

These dependencies are time sensitive. Consult these links for more information:

• EclipseLink Status
• EclipseLink Milestones
• Java EE 7 Namespaces
• GlassFish 4 Release Schedule