[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (AS7-946) Persistence annotation processing is overly restrictive

Persistence annotation processing is overly restrictive --------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-946 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-946 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: JPA / Hibernate Affects Versions: No Release Reporter: Marius Bogoevici Assignee: jaikiran pai If a deployment contains classes bearing the @PersistenceContext annotation, the annotation processor will fail the deployment if a persistence unit is not found. While this is correct for classes which are a target for container-driven injection, the application may contain annotated classes that are not injection targets according to the Java EE specification. This is not illegal according to the specification. To wit, a Spring application may use @PersistenceContext for performing Spring-driven injection of Spring-managed entity manager factories. In the past, such applications could have used the 'metadata-complete' attribute in web.xml, but this does not seem to work anymore. Regardless, of that, the server could adopt a more lenient approach, by failing the injection only when a managed bean is actually injected with a non-existent PU/PC reference. The other variant would be to restrict validation to classes which are actual injection targets according to the Java EE specification.