[ARIES-1711] Mapping files in persistence.xml not used

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: jpa-2.7.0, jpa-2.6.1
• Fix Version/s: jpa-2.7.0
• Component/s: JPA

Environment

Apache Aries 2.6.1
Hibernate 5.0.7.Final
Felix 5.6.1
JPA 2.1

• Flags: Patch, Important

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• Assignee: Timothy James Ward
• Reporter: Alexander Liepold
• Created: 07/Apr/17 11:15
• Updated: 26/Nov/18 15:40
• Resolved: 16/Jun/17 10:07

Description

The mapping files in a PeristenceUnit are not used by Apache Aries.

The same issue was noticed at this thread: http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Aries-JPA-2-3-0-mapping-file-not-used-td4047501.html

I have the same problem and I found out that the use of a mapping file in a persistence.xml works only on particular circumstances.

For example if I use the following declaration of a persistence.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence ...
	version="2.1">
	<persistence-unit name="jpa.customer"
		transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
		<provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>

		<non-jta-data-source>osgi:service/javax.sql.DataSource/(osgi.jndi.service.name=jdbc/testDB)</non-jta-data-source>

		<mapping-file>META-INF/developer-orm.xml</mapping-file>
		
		<mapping-file>META-INF/orm.xml</mapping-file>
		
		<class>test.Customer</class>

		...

		<properties>
			...
		</properties>
	</persistence-unit>
</persistence>

On deployment of this persistence-unit the class test.Customer gets bootstrapped from Hibernate. The mapping file META-INF/orm.xml is detected automatically from the persistence provider.
But the mapping file META-INF/developer-orm.xml is never detected.

If I fixed the particular code in the module Aries JPA Container locally. After building and testing the Apache Aries Project I could deploy a persistence.xml with multiple mapping files.