Re: MappedSuperClass annotation

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:07:18 -0800

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Arved Sandstrom wrote:

Lew wrote:

Daniel Pitts wrote:

Lew wrote:

Can you share a snippet or example to illustrate that, please? I racked [sic]
my brain trying to figure out why you'd have > 1 level of '@MappedSuperClass'

.... [SNIP] ...

The basis is that I have a parent abstract class with universal
metadata, then
two other abstract classes with divergent metadata (different schemes
for a
similar workflow). Then my concrete classes extend one of those two
mid-level
classes.

Not a common set up, but it is what was called for in my application.

That's sufficient to make the use case clear, thank you.

The only universally applicable rule in programming is that there are no
universally applicable rules in programming.

.... [SNIP] ...

For maintenance/ongoing development reasons I'm personally not keen on
using JPA @Inheritance, nor multiple levels of @Entity, nor do I use
@MappedSuperclass for "substantive" fields (I'd prefer not to go the
route of @AttributeOverride and @AssociationOverride either, to
accommodate changes). As you might surmise I like relatively flat,
uninspiring, and "safe" inheritance hierarchies for JPA.

JPA is best suited for flat, uninspiring, safe modeling overall; the trouble
I've seen in its use comes from a combination of getting too fancy by half
("sesquifancy") and using old-style, pre-JPA Hibernate, or trying to use it
for bulk or set-oriented operations, or trying to do JDBC via JPA which is
utterly stupid. Sets and objects work differently!

Also, the mental model of 'EntityManager' is different from Hibernate's
'Session'. People try to use it monolithically and discover problems like
overfull entity management memory, for which they blame the framework instead
of their own idiocy.

But that's all personal choice. I'll have to admit that if a strong,
reasoned argument were made for a case like Daniel's, that I wouldn't be
able to reject this layered use of @MappedSuperclass out of hand.
...
1. By accessible I just mean that "real" DB auditing data is frequently
harder to conveniently get at.

--
Lew
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