[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HBX-1086) Support SpringJPAConfiguration

[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-1086?page=c... ] John Turner commented on HBX-1086: ---------------------------------- I've looked into this a bit more and the PersistenceUnitManager does not do exactly what I thought it did. I might follow this up with Spring though. For the project I am working on, the ideal scenario would be this. HibernateTools loads all persistence.xml from the classpath and executes hbm2ddl on the specified persistent unit. If multiple persistent units of the same name exist, the class list, mapping file list etc. could be merged. I know what you are saying re the connection info but the hibernate tools would be used at build time with no need to connect to database (open to correction here). At suntime, spring can inject the datasource into the entitymanagerfactory or PersistenceUnitManager in this case and so no connection information exists in the persistence.xml. Spring can also inject the dialect etc. I'm sure some of the specifics would need a bit of work, but the idea is sound. End result would be that by dropping a jar with a persistence.xml, entity classes etc. into an ear, spring will automatically load the configuration and merge into the persistent unit. I might not be explaining myself very well but I hope this makes a bit of sense? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira