I just upgraded to Hibernate Annotations 3.3.1.GA and EntityManager 3.3.2.GA and I noticed that in ejb3-persistence.jar there is a new class named javax.persistence.PersistenceUtil. This class isn't specified in the JPA specification (at least from what I see) and it looks like its api (at least partially) is similar to javax.persistence.Persistence.


I didn't expect ejb3-persistence.jar to change. The reason I'm asking is that I have a project with a class named PersistenceUtil and I'm now getting collisions since both packages are imported throughout the project. Before I rename my PersistenceUtil I was wondering what the story is behind javax.persistence.PersistenceUtil.

-Jay

Hi,

I cannot tell you were this class comes from, but why do you use the javax.persistence package anyway? I would recommend renaming at least your package. Generally I would stay away from using javax or java as package prefix. Provided the packages differ there should be no problem anymore with two PersistenceUtil classes.

Sorry, my PersistenceUtil class is in my own package, not javax.persistence. The collision occurs because my code imports my package and javax.persistence. I either have to rename my class or fully qualify my use of it.

javax.persistence.PersistenceUtil is a mistake on my side. The latest maven version should have it fixed

http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/hibernate/ejb3-persistence/1.0.2.GA/