[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-694) JPA database refactor management (liquibase, etc)

JPA database refactor management (liquibase, etc) ------------------------------------------------- Key: FORGE-694 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-694 Project: Forge Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Brainstorming Environment: JPA-based projects Reporter: darren hartford Priority: Critical Labels: hibernate, jpa, refactoring Recommend idea for adding a database change plugin. The Grails plugin for database changes (http://grails.org/plugin/database-migration) may be good for inspiration, however the Forge version may not necessarily have the tightly coupled support as the Grails/Groovy domain models have, but something that supports JPA would be fabulous. Although a generic plugin for Liquibase or other database change management support could be useful, it would be left 'up to the developer' on how to use it which seems counter-intuitive to a more RAD-style development environment, per the specific of JPA-based data access (potentially OGM-based JPA as well). Usecase is for solving how to deploy database structure changes in an automated fashion to ensure the database schema does not go out of sync with the application.