[hibernate-dev] Ejb3Configuration

[Steve Ebersole]

We all have agreed that Ejb3Configuration is a mess.  In my JPA 2.1 
branch I again decided to look at attacking that problem.  So I came up 
with the notion of an EntityManagerFactoryBuilder that takes the place 
of Ejb3Configuration.

That code is all in place and all tests that use JPA boostrapping 
through Persistence or PersistenceProvider are passing.  I still have 
not changed the base test classes that build an Ejb3Configuration as 
means to bootstrap HEM, so I am not sure how much of that logic is 
missing.  The reason I stopped is that what I REALLY want to do is to 
just rip out Ejb3Configuration.  We deprecated it back in 4.0 for just 
this purpose.  We knew that we wanted to replace it and that 
Ejb3Configuration would simply not work when we went to integrate 
metamodel.  EntityManagerFactoryBuilder is built to work with the new 
metamodel code.

So bottom line, unless I hear compelling reason(s) not to, I plan on 
removing Ejb3Configuration from the codebase.  The sooner the better.


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