[OPENJPA-5] OpenJPA doesn't compile with JDBC 4

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0, 0.9.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-M3
• Component/s: build / infrastructure
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Craig L Russell
• Created: 01/Aug/06 05:24
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 08/Mar/10 16:04

Description

Patrick opines:
OpenJPA implements Statement, ResultSet, Connection, and maybe a
couple other JDBC interfaces. See
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.Delegating*. We do this for a number of
reasons: to resolve database-specific bugs in a transparent fashion, to
provide logging, to handle reference counting, etc.

The pressing issue is that we must provide implementations of all of the
methods in the various java.sql interfaces. The fact that we do not
implement the new JDBC4 methods is why OpenJPA won't currently compile
against JDK6. This is pretty easy to fix; take a look at
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.DelegatingStatement to see how we handled
this for JDBC3. Since we know that we never invoke the new methods, we
can happily throw unsupported operation exceptions for the new methods.

However, these unsupported methods do provide a challenge. While Kodo
doesn't use any of these methods, our mechanism for implementing them is
limiting, in that users who obtain Connections from Kodo will not be
able to use the new JDBC3/JDBC4 methods in their own code. Ideally, we
should provide some means for people to designate to OpenJPA that it
should use a dynamic proxy to implement the unimplemented methods. This
shouldn't be the default behavior, as the dynamic proxy will add
overhead, but certainly could be desirable for some. I'll file an issue.

Issue Links

• duplicates: OPENJPA-4 build fails on Java 6
• incorporates: OPENJPA-1285 Dynamic JDBC4 connection wrapper should maintain constructor refernce for faster instantiation
• is cloned by: OPENJPA-6 OpenJPA doesn't meaningfully implement JDBC3, JDBC4 methods in its delegates
• is depended upon by: OPENJPA-114 Exploit features of JDBC 4
• relates to: OPENJPA-1012 Test failures in TestManagedInterface with @ManagedInterface annotation when using JDK6