Dali R1.0 Planning meetings - Tuesday

Attendees: Brian Vosburgh(Oracle), Shaun Smith(Oracle), Paul Fullbright(Oracle), Tran Le(Oracle), Karen Moore(Oracle), Neil Hauge(Oracle), Leonard Theivendra(IBM), Chuck Brigham(IBM), Tom Deboer(IBM), Konstantin Kommisarchik(BEA), Gary Horen(BEA)

9:00AM - Adopter requirements gathering

• Current extension points
  • Core Default Attribute Mapping extension point
  • Core Attribute Mapping extension point
  • UI Default Attribute Mapping extension point
  • UI Attribute Mapping extension point

• Requirements
  • Support vendor specific annotations (O/R metadata) with the same short name as existing JPA annotations/elements (Fully qualified annotations)
  • Enable specific vendor extensions based on provider selection in the beginning
  • Need to be able to extend/enable new validation; think more on changing rules via extension
  • Extension points(Core + UI) for Type Mappings
  • Support vendor specific Persistence.xml properties (login, caching, etc), and validation.
  • Should not prevent, and better yet provide extension for “provider-orm.xml”
  • Fully adopt WTP Wizard Framework and Data Models
  • Ensure Wizards are extensible
  • DDL Gen extension point for plugging in your provider
  • Entity Gen extension
  • Provide extension for QueryHint values

• Design notes
• Validator framework provides hook into facet for extending validation

• New Features
  • Validate data model names (e.g., Table) against database capabilities—limits available from RDB/DTP for target database
    • Warn when defaults will produce DDL with names too big
    • Warn when user provided data model names too big

Questions

• How can we configure a Run Configish thing for boot JPA apps for specific providers?

12:00PM - Lunch

1:00PM - orm.xml implementation

• What does the editing look like, how does it behave
• Whiteboarding

Notes:

• Should be able to right-click anywhere inside XML to get global actions from the orm.xml pers. outline.

3:30PM - Facet implementation

• See project creation flow chart
• Talk to Tim and Konstantin
• Generic JPA server could service JPA facet providers
• Look at JSTCommonFacetCorePlugin
• Define global insallation/provider/runtime that can be used for JPA classpath. For deployment, user will first have to copy jars.
• Use project properties
• JST.web facet JSTServletUI
• Put together requirements to send Konstantin

4:45PM - APT implementation

Talked to Gary Horen

• Discussed JDT annotation limitations
• Gary is going to look into some of the annotation limitations discussed.

Notes:

• Importing archive to create Persistence project