Hibernate JPA and OSGi

Hibernate ORM
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Hi,

I’m looking at hibernate integration in an OSGi environment and would like to use JPA.
The example use case is the annotated entity objects are located in one bundle (dogs), and we’re trying to persist a “Dog” object from code outside that bundle.
We also have a requirement not to have a persistence.xml file.

So I created a custom implementation of PersistenceUnitInfo and create an EntityManagerFactory like so:

EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl(
            PersistenceUnitInfoDescriptor(
                CustomPersistenceUnitInfo(
                    "somename",
                    listOf("dogs.Dog"),
                    mapOf(
                        "javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" to connectionDetails.driver,
                        "hibernate.dialect" to connectionDetails.dialect,
                        "javax.persistence.jdbc.url" to connectionDetails.url,
                        "javax.persistence.jdbc.user" to connectionDetails.username,
                        "javax.persistence.jdbc.password" to connectionDetails.password,
                        "hibernate.show_sql" to "true",
                        "hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" to "update"
                    ).toProperties(),
                    bundleClassloader
                )
            ),
            emptyMap<Any, Any>(), bundleClassloader
        )
            .build()

However, where this goes wrong is in the categorizeAnnotatedClass method of the AnnotationMetadataSourceProcessorImpl class, specifically:

xClass.isAnnotationPresent( Entity.class )

returns false because the annotation for xClass (dogs.Dog in the “dogs” class loader) is in the javax.persistence-api bundle class loader, while and Entity is in the main application class loader.

I believe it would work if instead hibernate did something like:

xClass.isAnnotationPresent(Class.forName(Entity.class.name, false, ((JavaXClass) xClass).clazz.getClassLoader()))

As the annotation interface should always be in the classloader for the annotated class.

Is there a way to resolve this? Or a different approach I should be using?
Any pointers would be appreciated.

For reference, I am using hibernate-core:5.5.7.Final and hibernate-osgi:5.5.7.Final.

2

Since nobody from the community stepped up to maintain the integration and we faced many issues with PaxExam in the past, we decided to discontinue the OSGi integration with Hibernate 6.0 as part of https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-14518

Unless some other OSGi expert in this forum who knows the integration well is willing to help you, I fear you are on your own with this. We happily accept any PRs that will help you achieve what you need, but consider that 6.0 will not provide any further support for OSGi unless someone from the community takes over the maintenance of the integration.