Re: JPA OneToOne annotation across two different jdbc drivers
On Nov 22, 1:59 am, "Jeffrey H. Coffield"
<jeff...@digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:
We have data in two different databases types (MySQL and OpenVMS). Both
have JDBC drivers. Does someone have an example of using the JPA
annotations to connect across two different persistence units?
I would be surprised if you could get this working because for this to
work a JPA implementation would need to have a _complete_ RDBMS
implementation inside (i.e. including handling of distributed
transactions, joining in memory, maybe even checking FKs etc.).
If, OTOH you buy a federated database product which does all this for
you and has a JDBC driver then you could get this working - but for
JPA then this would be a single database only hence no special case.
A solution which might work is to use features of RDBMS which are
capable of querying remote databases (Oracle's database link comes to
mind). In that case some tables would appear to reside in a different
schema and you would need to annotate accordingly.
Kind regards
robert
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