Hi, You should be able to work with static inner classes. I think that you might need to use $ notation for the last separator, though: com.ibm.retail.Product$InnerProduct -Patrick On Jun 25, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Arun Nagarajan wrote: > Hi, > I am using OpenJPA for persistence. The java classes are > generated > from XML Schema using XML beans technology. The java types to be > persisted > are being generated as inner classes by XML Beans. After writing the > mapping information in the form of xml to map those persistable > classes to > DB, I ran the code to persist the java types. > > I got the following error. > > the class "com.ibm.retail.Product.InnerProduct" listed in the > openjpa.MetaDataFactory configuration property could not be loaded; > ignoring > > Can you please let me know whether OpenJPA supports persisting inner > class. My inner class is a static inner class. > > Thanks and Regards, > arun... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Arun N, > IBM > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Patrick Linskey 202 669 5907