A PAR is just an archive with a META-INF/persistence.xml file in it. The JPA spec does cover this. The extension is irrelevant.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:08 PM Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org> wrote: > I remember JBoss had "HAR" deployments to package Hibernate models and > PU definitions.. as far as I know this was a JBoss only thing, it > wouldn't surprise me if other app servers experimented with similar > non-standardized archives. > > https://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/jboss4guide/r3/html/ch13.html > > On 9 March 2016 at 18:39, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The part is backslashes comes from the absolute path set by Gradle when > > supplying the module OS folder. > > The right part containing slashes is the one set in persistence.xml. > > I'll try to replace backslashes with slashes and see how it goes. > > > > I was curious if people use the jar-file with absolute paths because the > > JPA spec only implies it in the context of relative paths inside an EAR > or > > WAR. > > As for PAR, I guess that was included in some JPA 1.0 draft but it got > > rejected in the end, right? > > > > Vlad > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org > > > > wrote: > > > >> We usually strive on having functionalities work on both Java EE and > >> Java SE. > >> you example though shows a mix of forward and backslash in your > >> <jar-file>, is that expected ? > >> > >> Emmanuel > >> > >> On Wed 2016-03-09 17:05, Vlad Mihalcea wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I have two tests in the PackagedEntityManagerTest unit test that fail > on > >> my > >> > machine, but work just fine for everybody else. > >> > It could be an OS thing or not, but during the check, I found hat we > are > >> > testing against an use case that is not found in the JPA spec. > >> > > >> > The testExternalJar() creates an externaljar.jar and an > explicitpar.par. > >> > > >> > I found an old reference on the PAR archive ( > >> > http://radio-weblogs.com/0135826/2005/07/07.html) but the JPA 2.1 > >> doesn't > >> > mention anything about it. > >> > The explicitpar.par contains the persistence.xml which contains a > >> jar-file > >> > attribute that references the externaljar.jar with an absolute path: > >> > > >> > > >> > <jar-file>D:\Vlad\Work\GitHub\hibernate-orm\hibernate-entitymanager\target/packages/externaljar.jar</jar-file> > >> > > >> > The JPA spec says that: "Such JAR files are specified relative to the > >> > directory or jar file that contains the root of the persistence unit", > >> and > >> > gives several examples > >> > for when using an EAR with or without a WAR. > >> > > >> > While debugging, I found that the JarFileBasedArchiveDescriptor scans > the > >> > "explicitpar.par" and looks for: > >> > > >> > if ( getEntryBasePrefix() != null && ! entryName.startsWith( > >> > getEntryBasePrefix() ) ) { > >> > continue; > >> > } > >> > > >> > where the getEntryBasePrefix() is > >> > > >> > "D:/Vlad/Work/GitHub/hibernate-orm/hibernate-entitymanager/target/packages/externaljar.jar" > >> > > >> > The way that JarFileBasedArchiveDescriptor is implemented matches the > JPA > >> > description. > >> > Nevertheless, the scan cannot locate the jar, and the entities that > are > >> > contained in the "externaljar.jar" don't get loaded, and the test > fails. > >> > > >> > I can ignore this on my machine and just consider it a white noise, > but I > >> > wonder why we still check for PAR when we might want to have a test > with > >> an > >> > EAR instead and relative paths. > >> > > >> > Vlad > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > hibernate-dev mailing list > >> > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev