[seam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBSEAM-3612) examples should demonstrate obtaining entity manager factory from JNDI via persistence unit reference

examples should demonstrate obtaining entity manager factory from JNDI via persistence unit reference ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBSEAM-3612 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-3612 Project: Seam Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Examples Affects Versions: 2.1.0.GA Reporter: Dan Allen Assignee: Dan Allen Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.1.1.CR2 Original Estimate: 4 hours Remaining Estimate: 4 hours For any example that is deploying to a standard Java EE 5 environment (for instance the jpa example deploying to GlassFish or JBoss AS 5), the entity manager factory should be obtained through JNDI through a persistence unit reference. 5.3.1 of JPA spec: "Within a Java EE environment, an entity manager factory may be injected using the Persistence-Unit annotation or obtained through JNDI lookup." It would first need to be declared in web.xml: <persistence-unit-ref> <persistence-unit-ref-name>bookingDatabase/emf</persistence-unit-ref-name> <persistence-unit-name>bookingDatabase</persistence-unit-name> </persistence-unit-ref> Then the components.xml would look like this: <persistence:managed-persistence-context name="entityManager" auto-create="true" persistence-unit-jndi-name="java:comp/env/bookingDatabase/emf" /> The reason we should do this is to advocate the Java EE standard approach.