How do I configure JPA with the Eclipse plugin?

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I have been trying to find a way to configure JPA platform/implementation for Eclipse but could not find anything relevant. Did I miss anything or there is just no such support?

If I have to roll my own, mainly generating two files .settings/org.eclipse.jpt.core.prefs and .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.prefs.xml, are there examples out there that I can follow?

Thanks!!

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The Gradle Eclipse plugin doesn’t have any particular support for JPA. Are you already applying the ‘eclipse-wtp’ plugin? If you need to create files other than those created by that plugin, you’ll need to write some tasks from scratch, perhaps leveraging Groovy’s MarkupBuilder to generate the XML.

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Thank you for the confirmation and the XML tip. I ended up adding this block to my eclipse.wtp for now:

eclipse {
 wtp {
   facet {
   facet name:'jpt.jpa', version:'2.0'
  }
      File prefsFile = file('.settings/org.eclipse.jpt.core.prefs')
  prefsFile.parentFile.mkdirs()
    prefsFile.write('eclipse.preferences.version=1\n')
  prefsFile.append('org.eclipse.jpt.core.platform=eclipselink2_4')
    def writer = new StringWriter()
  def xml = new MarkupBuilder(writer)
  xml.root() {
   facet(id:'jpt.jpa') {
    node(name:'libprov') {
     attribute(name:'provider-id', value:'jpa-no-op-library-provider')
    }
   }
  }
  prefsFile = file('.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.prefs.xml')
  prefsFile.write(writer.toString());
 }
}

Maybe someday I will learn to write a proper plug-in for JPA :slight_smile: