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From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
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Subject: RE: Perfered way to convert JPA2 annotations to a persistence.xml
 based mapping file?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:22:24 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pinaki Poddar 
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 14:55
> To: users@openjpa.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Perfered way to convert JPA2 annotations to a 
> persistence.xml based mapping file?
> 
> Hi Jason,
>   Try the following to get a XML mapping output out of the annotated
> classes:
> 
>   public void testOutput() throws Exception {
> 	Class[] classes = {Book.class, Audit.class}; // the 
> persistent classes 
>         
>         // Cast a generic EntityManagerFactory to 
> OpenJPA-specifc configuration
> 	OpenJPAConfiguration conf =
> OpenJPAPersistence.cast(_emf).getConfiguration();
> 
>         // Cast it again to get a JDBC specific configuration
>         JDBCConfiguration jconf = (JDBCConfiguration)conf;
> 
>         // Initailize the serialization utility 	
> 	XMLPersistenceMappingSerializer serializer = new 
> XMLPersistenceMappingSerializer(jconf);
> 
>         // Access the repository of meta data
> 	MetaDataRepository repos = conf.getMetaDataRepositoryInstance();
> 	
>        // Ensure that the repository loads all the metadata
> 	for (Class<?> cls : classes) {
> 		repos.getMetaData(cls, null, true);
> 	}
> 	
>         // Supply the serializer the loaded repository 
> 	serializer.addAll(repos);
> 		
>         // Write it out on the cosole (or a file)
>         Writer writer = new PrintWriter(System.out, true);
> 	serializer.serialize(writer, MetaDataModes.MODE_ALL);
> 	writer.close();
> }

How does one thank you? It worked perfectly.

-Jason

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