<h1>GlassFish v3 User Task Analysis for Persistence/EclipseLink</h1>

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3/5/08 Attendees: Mitesh, Marina, Darani, Sherry, Linda, Ming. Facilitator: June, Recorder: Dixie

Scope

To identify the tasks that a developer must perform to use the EclipseLink Java Persistence provider with the Application Server.

Related Information

List of Tasks

1. Specifying the persistence unit
   1. Specifying name (out of scope)
   2. Specifying transaction type (out of scope)
   3. Specifying data source
   4. Specifying persistence provider
      1. Choosing alternate provider
         1. Putting provider JARs in the right place
   5. Specifying mapping files (out of scope)
   6. Specifying managed classes according to packaging (out of scope)
   7. Using persistence outside AppServer (Java SE)
   8. Specifying vendor properties
      • caching
      • logging
      • lazy loading
      • query hints
2. Configuring the Entity
   • Link to j2ee tutorial or the spec Ch 9 Annotations, Ch 2 Relationships.
3. Packaging (out of scope)
   1. Packaging the Persistence Unit
   2. Packaging for the Web Only Distribution (No EAR)
4. Deploying
   • Note: No Java2DB for TP2.

Associated Concepts

• Entities versus EJBs (don't pkg entity as an EJB)
• Annotations vs. XML files
• Schema generation defaults (Java2DB)
  • Note: No Java2DB for TP2
• Primary key generation defaults

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