[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-5709) JPA Metamodel: EntityType.getName != @Entity.name

JPA Metamodel: EntityType.getName != @Entity.name ------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-5709 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5709 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: metamodel Affects Versions: 3.6.0 Reporter: Tomasz Blachowicz Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: 3.6.1, 4.0.0.Alpha1 I was working recently on the implementation that uses JPA2 meta-model. It was rather surprise to me when I found out that name of the entity on {{EntityType}} is different than name of the entity specified with {{@Entity}} annotation. The specification is not explicit about the entity names, so it could be interpreted differently, but I think it is reasonable to implicitly assume that entity name specified with {{@Entity}} is used as entity name with JPA2 meta-model. {quote} *10.1 Entity* The {{Entity}} annotation specifies that the class is an entity. This annotation is applied to the entity class. The {{name}} annotation element specifies the entity name. If the {{name}} element is not specified, the entity name defaults to the unqualified name of the entity class. This name is used to refer to the entity in queries. {code:java} @Documented @Target(TYPE) @Retention(RUNTIME) public @interface Entity { String name() default ""; } {code} {quote} I know that in Hibernate the entity name if FQN of persistent class and the abbreviated name (without the package) can be *only* used within the HQL queries. I guess this was OK prior JPA2 when there was no such think like meta-model. This topic has been already discussed several times, but I couldn't find any discussion in the context of JPA meta-model, thus I've decided to create a new ticket. The other issues related to this topic are: HHH-4375, HHH-2597 and HHH-4465.