Part I Development Tasks and Tools
1. Setting Up a Development Environment
Part II Developing Applications and Application Components
6. Using the Java Persistence API
Additional Database Properties
Primary Key Generation Defaults
Changing the Persistence Provider
Restrictions and Optimizations
Using @OrderBy with a Shared Session Cache
Using BLOB or CLOB Types with the Inet Oraxo JDBC Driver
Named Native Queries and JDBC Queries
7. Developing Web Applications
8. Using Enterprise JavaBeans Technology
9. Using Container-Managed Persistence
12. Developing Lifecycle Listeners
13. Developing OSGi-enabled Java EE Applications
Part III Using Services and APIs
14. Using the JDBC API for Database Access
15. Using the Transaction Service
16. Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface
The automatic schema generation feature of the GlassFish Server defines database tables based on the fields or properties in entities and the relationships between the fields or properties. This insulates developers from many of the database related aspects of development, allowing them to focus on entity development. The resulting schema is usable as-is or can be given to a database administrator for tuning with respect to performance, security, and so on.
The following topics are addressed here:
Note - Automatic schema generation is supported on an all-or-none basis: it expects that no tables exist in the database before it is executed. It is not intended to be used as a tool to generate extra tables or constraints.
Deployment won't fail if all tables are not created, and undeployment won't fail if not all tables are dropped. Instead, an error is written to the server log. This is done to allow you to investigate the problem and fix it manually. You should not rely on the partially created database schema to be correct for running the application.
The following annotations are used in automatic schema generation: @AssociationOverride, @AssociationOverrides, @AttributeOverride, @AttributeOverrides, @Column, @DiscriminatorColumn, @DiscriminatorValue, @Embedded, @EmbeddedId, @GeneratedValue, @Id, @IdClass, @JoinColumn, @JoinColumns, @JoinTable, @Lob, @ManyToMany, @ManyToOne, @OneToMany, @OneToOne, @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn, @PrimaryKeyJoinColumns, @SecondaryTable, @SecondaryTables, @SequenceGenerator, @Table, @TableGenerator, @UniqueConstraint, and @Version. For information about these annotations, see the Java Persistence Specification.
For @Column annotations, the insertable and updatable elements are not used in automatic schema generation.
For @OneToMany and @ManyToOne annotations, no ForeignKeyConstraint is created in the resulting DDL files.
Schema generation properties or asadmin command line options can control automatic schema generation by the following:
Creating tables during deployment
Dropping tables during undeployment
Dropping and creating tables during redeployment
Generating the DDL files
Note - Before using these options, make sure you have a properly configured database. See Specifying the Database.
Optional schema generation properties control the automatic creation of database tables. You can specify them in the persistence.xml file. For more information, see Using EclipseLink JPA Extensions for Schema Generation.
The following options of the asadmin deploy or asadmin deploydir command control the automatic creation of database tables at deployment.
Table 6-1 The asadmin deploy and asadmin deploydir Generation Options
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The following options of the asadmin undeploy command control the automatic removal of database tables at undeployment.
Table 6-2 The asadmin undeploy Generation Options
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For more information about the asadmin deploy, asadmin deploydir, and asadmin undeploy commands, see the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1-3.1.1 Reference Manual.
When asadmin deployment options and persistence.xml options are both specified, the asadmin deployment options take precedence.