Dali JPA Tools

About Dali Dali JPA Tools is an Eclipse Web Tools Platform sub-Project Dali 1.0 is a part of WTP 2.0 Europa coordinated release Goal - to build extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for the definition and editing of object-relational mappings for JPA Entities Provide creation and automated initial mapping wizards, programming assistance such as dynamic problem identification

Dali Goals Simplicity Automated mapping wizards and intelligent mapping assistance Intuitiveness Use existing and consistent modelling and tooling practices in Eclipse Compliance Support any and all Java Persistence API compliant runtime implementations Test using EJB 3.0 JPA Reference Implementation Extensibility Provide extension points for vendors and open source projects to add their own value-add features

Information Dali Web Site: Dali User’s Guide: pdf Dali Tutorial: i_jsf_tutorial.pdf Dali Developer Documentation tion

JPA Development Perspective To start using Dali JPA Tools in Eclipse open “JPA Development” perspective

Basic Steps Create a database connection Create a JPA project Create persistent Java entities Associate the entity with a database table Create OR mapping id columns relationships

Database Connection Create database connection using a “Data Source Explorer” view

JPA Details View The JPA Details view displays the persistence information for the currently selected entity

JPA Structure View The JPA Structure view displays an outline of the structure (its attributes and mappings) of the entity that is currently selected or opened in the editor

Managing the persistence.xml file When creating a JPA project, you can also create the persistence.xml file Use the Persistence XML Editor to edit the persistence.xml file Synchronizing classes as you work with the classes in your Java project, you will need to update the persistence.xml file to reflect the changes right-click the persistence.xml file  JPA Tools  Synchronize Classes

Generating Entities from Tables Procedure to generate Java persistent entities from database tables Right-click the JPA project  JPA Tools  Generate Entities Eclipse creates a Java persistent entity for each database table Each entity contains fields based on the table’s columns Eclipse will also generate entity relationships based on the table constrain

Table Generation from Entities Generates platform specific tables from Entities through the DDL generation Right-click the JPA project  JPA Tools  Generate DDL

Demos On the project web site it’s possible to view visual Demos for: Creating a Database Connection Creating a Database Schema Creating a JPA Project Mapping with Annotations Mapping with XML