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Dynamically create EntityManager / Connect to custom host/DB every time in Hibernate

I have an application running on Websphere Liberty which should compare tables from 2 databases/schemas.
The user should be able to input the connection data, like the host and the credentials.
I'm using Hibernate to access the application DB.
I've tried to use multiple Persistence Units, one for the application DB and one for all other DBs.
But i got 2 problems:
i get an "Illegal attempt to enlist multiple 1PC XAResources"
error sometimes
can query the 2 DBs with
user-submitted credentials, but i get no results except if i connect
to the same db listed in server.xml file as DataSource
This are the DataSources on the server.xml on the server (dbs are oracle dbs)
<dataSource id="MyAppDS" jndiName="jdbc/MyDS" type="javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource">
<jdbcDriver javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleConnectionPoolDataSource" libraryRef="OracleSQLLib"/>
<connectionManager agedTimeout="30m" connectionTimeout="10s" maxPoolSize="20" minPoolSize="5"/>
<properties password="..." url="jdbc:oracle:thin:#...:1521:..." user="..."/>
</dataSource>
<dataSource id="OtherOracle" jndiName="jdbc/OtherOracle" type="javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource">
<jdbcDriver javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleConnectionPoolDataSource" libraryRef="OracleSQLLib"/>
<connectionManager agedTimeout="30m" connectionTimeout="10s" maxPoolSize="20" minPoolSize="5"/>
<properties password="..." url="jdbc:oracle:thin:#127.0.0.1:1521:XE" user="..."/>
</dataSource>
This is persistence.xml on the EJB module
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.1"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="main-persistence">
<jta-data-source>jdbc/MyDS</jta-data-source>
<class>classes...</class>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform"
value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.WebSphereExtendedJtaPlatform" />
<property name="hibernate.dialect"
value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9iDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.temp.use_jdbc_metadata_defaults"
value="false" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
<persistence-unit name="other-persistence" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<non-jta-data-source>jdbc/OtherOracle</non-jta-data-source>
<class>classes...</class>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform"
value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.WebSphereExtendedJtaPlatform" />
<property name="hibernate.dialect"
value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9iDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.temp.use_jdbc_metadata_defaults"
value="false" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
On the Java Bean i use the EntityManagerFactory
#PersistenceUnit(unitName = "other-persistence")
private EntityManagerFactory emf;
And i create the entity manager with custom credentials like this
Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<String, String>();
properties.put("hibernate.connection.driver_class", "oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver");
properties.put("hibernate.connection.url", myCustomCreatedConnectionUrl);
properties.put("hibernate.connection.username", customUser);
properties.put("hibernate.connection.password", customPassword);
properties.put("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9iDialect");
properties.put("hibernate.show-sql", "true");
EntityManager entityManager = emf.createEntityManager(properties);
If i check EntityManager properties with getProperties everything seems to be right. But the queries works only if the credentials/host are = to the DataSource. Otherwise i get no results (but no errors)
What could the problem be?
Is there a way to use just one Persistence Unit but with custom host/credentials for different queries?

Regarding the first error, ""Illegal attempt to enlist multiple 1PC XAResources", this occurs because you are using both resources within the same transaction. I can see <non-jta-data-source>jdbc/OtherOracle</non-jta-data-source> in your configuration, which indicates that you might have intended for jdbc/OtherOracle to be a non-enlisting resource. To make that work, the data source itself needs to be configured as non-enlisting. You can do this with the transactional="false" attribute as follows:
<dataSource id="OtherOracle" jndiName="jdbc/OtherOracle" type="javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource" transactional="false">
...
On the other hand, if you actually want both resources to enlist in the transaction, then you need to use XADataSource rather than ConnectionPoolDataSource. Here is an example of how to do that (notice that both type type under dataSource and the attribute & class under jdbcDriver must be updated for this:
<dataSource id="MyAppDS" jndiName="jdbc/MyDS" type="javax.sql.XADataSource">
<jdbcDriver javax.sql.XADataSource="oracle.jdbc.xa.client.OracleXADataSource" libraryRef="OracleSQLLib"/>
<connectionManager agedTimeout="30m" connectionTimeout="10s" maxPoolSize="20" minPoolSize="5"/>
<properties password="..." url="jdbc:oracle:thin:#...:1521:..." user="..."/>
</dataSource>
<dataSource id="OtherOracle" jndiName="jdbc/OtherOracle" type="javax.sql.XADataSource">
<jdbcDriver javax.sql.XADataSource="oracle.jdbc.xa.client.OracleXADataSource" libraryRef="OracleSQLLib"/>
<connectionManager agedTimeout="30m" connectionTimeout="10s" maxPoolSize="20" minPoolSize="5"/>
<properties password="..." url="jdbc:oracle:thin:#127.0.0.1:1521:XE" user="..."/>
</dataSource>
In the second question, I think you are saying the different users cannot see the data. Could this be because the different database users are using different schema and do not have access each others' data? If you can get all of the users using a common schema, then adding #Table(schema="YOUR_SCHEMA_NAME") to the JPA #Entity might help. JavaDoc for the Table annotation can be found here.

I have recently had the same request where a user can connect to application and enter their database details. From this point on every JPA Query is executed on this new connection.
The additional problem was that there were more than 100 bases to choose from and creating all datasources at start was not a good idea.
We have thus created a single RoutingDatasource that manages the JDBC connections. We were heavily inspired by Spring's implementation org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.lookup.AbstractRoutingDataSource.
The main idea is:
You extend AbstractDataSource and getConnection() method which is called on every JPA query. You are basically tinkering the JDBC layer under the JPA layer.
You then create a new datasource according to what your user entered
Set Your routing datasource as main datasource for your entity manager
Optionally add some caching to avoid recreating datasources every time (or implement some pool)
Here is a demo class:
public class RoutingDataSource extends AbstractDataSource {
...
...
#Override
public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
return determineTargetDataSource().getConnection();
}
DataSource determineTargetDataSource() {
EmployeeDatabase lookupKey = determineCurrentLookupKey();
DataSource dataSource = this.datasources.get(lookupKey);
if (dataSource == null) {
logger.debug("Datasource not found. Creating new one");
SQLServerDataSource newDatasource = new SQLServerDataSource();
newDatasource.setURL("jdbc:sqlserver://" + lookupKey.getDatabaseHost());
newDatasource.setPassword(dbPass);
datasources.put(lookupKey, newDatasource);
dataSource = newDatasource;
} else {
logger.debug("Found existing database for key " + lookupKey);
}
logger.debug("Connecting to " + dataSource);
return dataSource;
}
}

Why Hibernate doesn't save my object in database

I'm using Hibernate 4.3.10 with Java 8.
To be more explicit see the following code example :
public static long createBlindStructure(BlindStructure pBlindStructure){
Transaction tcx = null;
SessionFactory factory = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory();
Session session = factory.openSession();
int id = -1;
try{
tcx = session.beginTransaction();
id = session.save(pBlindStructure);
tcx.commit();
}
catch( Throwable e){
tcx.rollback();
}
finally{
session.close();
}
return id;
}
In my mind this method save() open session and transaction, save my object and close session and transaction. From save() I tried to get back the identifier as describe in javadoc. But It doesn't work, I see the request execute in my log (thanks to Hibernate debug mode).
Hibernate: insert into PokerLeagueManager.blindStructure (structureJson) values (?)
But when I try this :
public static long createBlindStructure(BlindStructure pBlindStructure){
Transaction tcx = null;
SessionFactory factory = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory();
Session session = factory.openSession();
try{
tcx = session.beginTransaction();
session.save(pBlindStructure);
tcx.commit();
}
catch( Throwable e){
tcx.rollback();
}
finally{
session.close();
}
return pBlindStructure.getIdBlindStructure();
}
It correctly saved my object.
I test one more case :
Just returning a constant and don't put Id in the variable like first example and It work. It seems that object is not save in case I get the ID directly with session.save() method.
Moreover, I observe something interesting. I made a first test with one of the solution which worked, it generated a database data with Id 117. Then I changed my code for the solution which difsn't work and reloaded it in Tomcat , I made 2nd try without success. I changed again my code for the one which succeded and the id was generated is 120. It missed 2nf id number (the 2nd try I've done ??)
To help you see my hibernate.cfg.xml file
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
'-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN'
'http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd'>
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<!-- Database connection settings -->
<property name='connection.driver_class'>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name='connection.url'>jdbc:mysql://XXXXXX:XXXX/PokerLeagueManager</property>
<property name='connection.username'>XXXXX</property>
<property name='connection.password'>XXXXXX</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
<property name="connection.provider_class">org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquire_increment">1</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period">120</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">1</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">10</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">50</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">120</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquireRetryAttempts">1</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquireRetryDelay">250</property>
<!-- Dev -->
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.validate">true</property>
<!-- SQL dialect -->
<property name='dialect'>org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</property>
<!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management -->
<property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<!-- Disable the second-level cache -->
<property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.internal.NoCacheProvider</property>
<!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
<property name='show_sql'>true</property>
<mapping resource="mappings/BlindStructure.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="mappings/Tournament.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="mappings/LegalFee.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
Edit: User3813463 answer for a part of a question. It explains that session are in AUTO flush mode by default which flush session in some case like :
flush occurs by default at the following points:
before some query executions
from org.hibernate.Transaction.commit()
from Session.flush()
But I my point of view (I maybe miss understand something), my first case should worked because I commit my transaction.
Secondly, I need advise to choose a flush mode. To my mind Commit mode is a good way to do for method which make only inserting or only reading data on database.
Do you agree with me, have you some sources where this is debate?

This all is the magic of FlushMode read docs here
According to docs default FlushMode is AUTO that means
The Session is sometimes flushed before query execution in order to
ensure that queries never return stale state.
According to another document (Here):
flush occurs by default at the following points:
before some query executions
from org.hibernate.Transaction.commit()
from Session.flush()
So when you say pBlindStructure.getIdBlindStructure(); hibernate actually perform flush on current session, resulting data is getting saved in DB.

The session save method returns an object for the generated id by the generator. This value you should cast to Long.
long id = -1;
try{
tcx = session.beginTransaction();
id = (Long) session.save(pBlindStructure);
tcx.commit();
}
catch( Throwable e){
tcx.rollback();
}
finally{
session.close();
}
return id;

How to run native SQL queries in the same Hibernate transaction?

We have a Service which is #Stateful. Most of the Data-Operations are atomic, but within a certain set of functions We want to run multiple native queries within one transaction.
We injected the EntityManager with a transaction scoped persistence context. When creating a "bunch" of normal Entities, using em.persist() everything is working fine.
But when using native queries (some tables are not represented by any #Entity) Hibernate does not run them within the same transaction but basically uses ONE transaction per query.
So, I already tried to use manual START TRANSACTION; and COMMIT; entries - but that seems to interfere with the transactions, hibernate is using to persist Entities, when mixing native queries and persistence calls.
#Stateful
class Service{
#PersistenceContext(unitName = "service")
private EntityManager em;
public void doSth(){
this.em.createNativeQuery("blabla").executeUpdate();
this.em.persist(SomeEntity);
this.em.createNativeQuery("blablubb").executeUpdate();
}
}
Everything inside this method should happen within one transaction. Is this possible with Hibernate?
When debugging it, it is clearly visible that every statement happens "independent" of any transaction. (I.e. Changes are flushed to the database right after every statement.)
I've tested the bellow given example with a minimum setup in order to eliminate any other factors on the problem (Strings are just for breakpoints to review the database after each query):
#Stateful
#TransactionManagement(value=TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
#TransactionAttribute(value=TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
public class TestService {
#PersistenceContext(name = "test")
private EntityManager em;
public void transactionalCreation(){
em.createNativeQuery("INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','b','c')").executeUpdate();
String x = "test";
em.createNativeQuery("INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','c','b')").executeUpdate();
String y = "test2";
em.createNativeQuery("INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('c','b','a')").executeUpdate();
}
}
Hibernate is configured like this:
<persistence-unit name="test">
<provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
<jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/test</jta-data-source>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform"
value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.JBossAppServerJtaPlatform" />
<property name="hibernate.archive.autodetection" value="true" />
<property name="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size" value="20" />
<property name="connection.autocommit" value="false"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
And the outcome is the same as with autocommit mode: After every native query, the database (reviewing content from a second connection) is updated immediately.
The idea of using the transaction in a manual way leads to the same result:
public void transactionalCreation(){
Session s = em.unwrap(Session.class);
Session s2 = s.getSessionFactory().openSession();
s2.setFlushMode(FlushMode.MANUAL);
s2.getTransaction().begin();
s2.createSQLQuery("INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','b','c')").executeUpdate();
String x = "test";
s2.createSQLQuery("INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','c','b')").executeUpdate();
String y = "test2";
s2.createSQLQuery("INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('c','b','a')").executeUpdate();
s2.getTransaction().commit();
s2.close();
}

In case you don't use container managed transactions then you need to add the transaction policy too:
#Stateful
#TransactionManagement(value=TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
#TransactionAttribute(value=REQUIRED)
I have only seen this phenomenon in two situations:
the DataSource is running in auto-commit mode, hence each statement is executed in a separate transaction
the EntityManager was not configured with #Transactional, but then only queries can be run since any DML operation would end-up throwing a transaction required exception.
Let's recap you have set the following Hibernate properties:
hibernate.current_session_context_class=JTA
transaction.factory_class=org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory
jta.UserTransaction=java:comp/UserTransaction
Where the final property must be set with your Application Server UserTransaction JNDI naming key.
You could also use the:
hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class=org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup
or some other strategy according to your current Java EE Application Server.

After reading about the topic for another bunch of hours while playing around with every configuration property and/or annotation I could find a working solution for my usecase. It might not be the best or only solution, but since the question has received some bookmarks and upvotes, i'd like to share what i have so far:
At first, there was no way to get it working as expected when running the persistence-unit in managed mode. (<persistence-unit name="test" transaction-type="JTA"> - JTA is default if no value given.)
I decided to add another persistence-unit to the persistence xml, which is configured to run in unmanaged mode: <persistence-unit name="test2" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">.
(Note: The waring about Multiple Persistence Units is just cause eclipse can't handle. It has no functional impact at all)
The unmanaged persitence-context requires local configuration of the database, since it is no longer container-provided:
<persistence-unit name="test2" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
<class>test.AEntity</class>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/test"/>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="1234"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="root"/>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" />
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
<property name="hibernate.archive.autodetection" value="true" />
<property name="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size" value="20" />
<property name="hibernate.connection.autocommit" value="false" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
A change required to the project would now be, that you add an unitName, whenever you use the #PersistenceContext annotation to retrieve a managed instance of the EntityManager.
But be aware, that you can only use #PersistenceContext for the managed persistence-unit. For the unmanaged one, you could implement a simple Producer and Inject the EntityManager using CDI whenever required:
#ApplicationScoped
public class Resources {
private static EntityManagerFactory emf;
static {
emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("test2");
}
#Produces
public static EntityManager createEm(){
return emf.createEntityManager();
}
}
Now, in the example given in the original Post, you need to Inject the EntityManager and manually take care about transactions.
#Stateful
public class TestService {
#Inject
private EntityManager em;
public void transactionalCreation() throws Exception {
em.getTransaction().begin();
try {
em.createNativeQuery(
"INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','b','a')")
.executeUpdate();
em.createNativeQuery(
"INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','b','b')")
.executeUpdate();
em.createNativeQuery(
"INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','b','c')")
.executeUpdate();
em.createNativeQuery(
"INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','b','d')")
.executeUpdate();
AEntity a = new AEntity();
a.setName("TestEntity1");
em.persist(a);
// force unique key violation, rollback should appear.
// em.createNativeQuery(
// "INSERT INTO `ttest` (`name`,`state`,`constraintCol`)VALUES('a','b','d')")
// .executeUpdate();
em.getTransaction().commit();
} catch (Exception e) {
em.getTransaction().rollback();
}
}
}
My tests so far showed that mixing of native queries and persistence calls lead to the desired result: Either everything is commited or the transaction is rolledback as a whole.
For now, the solution seems to work. I will continue to validate it's functionality in the main project and check if there are any other sideeffects.
Another thing I need to verify is if it would be save to:
Inject both Versions of the EM into one Bean and mix usage. (First checks seem to work, even when using both ems at the same time on the same table(s))
Having both Versions of the EM operating on the same datasource. (Same data source would most likely be no problem, same tables I assume could lead to unexpected problems.)
ps.: This is Draft 1. I will continue to improve the answer and point out problems and/or drawbacks I'm going to find.

You have to add <hibernate.connection.release_mode key="hibernate.connection.release_mode" value="after_transaction" /> to your properties. After a restart should the Transaction handling work.

TomEE + OpenJPA + IntelliJ entity doesn't persist

I created a "Java EE Web Module" project in IntelliJ. I then wrote a JaxRS annotated class that accepts JSON input. I then populate an annotated entity with the data, and try to persist it using a managed persistence context.
#Stateless
#Path("/states")
public class StateController {
#PersistenceContext(unitName = "testunit")
private EntityManager em;
#POST
#Path("/session_new")
#Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
#Consumes({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
public Response session_new(final CustomerSessionRequest req) {
CustomerSessions cs = new CustomerSessions(req.session_data);
em.persist(cs);
em.flush();
System.out.println("New CustomerSession saved: " + cs.getCustomerSessionId());
return Response.ok(cs).build();
}
}
I have a data source configured within IntelliJ called "testdb", and a persistence unit named "testunit" that maps to that data source in the persistence tool window.
My persistence XML looks like this:
<persistence-unit name="testunit">
<jta-data-source>testdb</jta-data-source>
<class>datamodels.testdb.CustomerSessions</class>
<properties>
<property name="openjpa.ConnectionURL" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/testdb"/>
<property name="openjpa.ConnectionDriverName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="openjpa.ConnectionUserName" value="testuser"/>
<property name="openjpa.ConnectionPassword" value="testpassword"/>
<property name="openjpa.Log" value="DefaultLevel=WARN, Runtime=INFO, Tool=INFO, SQL=TRACE"/>
<property name="openjpa.jdbc.SynchronizeMappings" value="buildSchema" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
Everything builds and deploys just fine, with no warnings. The request also runs just fine, and returns the expected response, with a new customer session ID generated.
However, nothing appears in the database.
So, my question: where is the data going, and how can I make the persist and flush calls work against my database?
EDIT:
I've tried several more things.
1) It looks like TomEE is using some kind of in-memory HSQL database with a data source name of "Default JDBC Data Source".
2) When I manually create the entity manager factory, and then the entity manager, everything works correctly:
EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("testunit");
EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
try {
em.getTransaction().begin();
CustomerSessions cs = new CustomerSessions(req.session_data);
em.persist(cs);
em.flush();
em.getTransaction().commit();
System.out.println("New CustomerSession saved: " + cs.getCustomerSessionId());
return Response.ok(cs).build();
} catch (Exception ex) {
em.getTransaction().rollback();
return Response.serverError().entity("An exception occurred").build();
}
2) If I try to create the EntityManagerFactory using the #PersistenceUnit annotation, the same initial problem occurs.

There were two things I was missing:
I didn't specify <Resource> objects in tomee.xml (which I didn't
want to, since I wanted it to deploy with the app). I discovered
that this can be done in a resources.xml file in the WEB-INF or
META-INF directories.
I didn't have the MySQL driver jar in the
TomEE lib directory. Unfortunately TomEE was transparently loading
the Default JDBC driver instead, causing entities to persist in its
own magical database.
I still don't have an explanation for why application-managed (manually created) persistence contexts worked in the first place, but at least now I have it working consistently.

How to configure embedded OpenEJB container for tests properly?

This is my SLSB:
#Stateless
public class MyService {
PersistenceContext(unitName = "abc")
EntityManager em;
public boolean exists(int id) {
return this.em.find(Employee.class, id) != null;
}
}
This is my persistence.xml (I'm using Glassfish v3):
<persistence>
<persistence-unit name="abc">
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<jta-data-source>java:/MyDS</jta-data-source>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.archive.autodetection" value="class" />
<property name="hibernate.dialect"
value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
Now I'm trying to create a test, using OpenEJB embedded container. This is my test class:
class MyServiceText {
#Test
public void testChecksExistence() throws Exception {
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.setProperty(
javax.naming.Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"org.apache.openejb.client.LocalInitialContextFactory"
);
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext(properties);
// actual testing skipped
}
}
I would like to use HSQL for testing. How can I instruct OpenEJB that my persistence unit "abc" has to point to HSQL during testing? Shall I create a new version of persistence.xml? Shall I use openejb.xml? I'm lost in their examples and documentation.. :(
It's a Maven-3 project.

I would suggest placing a file named jndi.properties in src/test/resources for your OpenEJB configuration. This will then be available in the test classpath, you can then use the no-argument contructor of InitialContext to lookup datasources and ejbs. An example configuration looks like this, I'm using mysql for my datasource:
java.naming.factory.initial=org.apache.openejb.client.LocalInitialContextFactory
myDS=new://Resource?type=DataSource
myDS.JdbcDriver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
myDS.JdbcUrl=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/test
myDS.JtaManaged=true
myDS.DefaultAutoCommit=false
myDS.UserName=root
myDS.Password=root
OpenEJB should then automatically replace the reference in persistence.xml with this datasource, if this is the only datasource then this should work even if the names are different.
Edit: Persistence unit settings
According to the documentation you referenced it should also be possible to configure persistence unit properties through jndi.properties:
abc.hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update
abc.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
I haven't tested this myself since I'm using mysql for both tests and normal executions, only with different database names. Please let me know if this works, I've been thinking about replacing mysql in my testcases too.