Description CorForLive 2011-06-06 04:27:10 EDT

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Situation:
- The whole domain model is defined in the orm.xml file. All entities are simple POJOs (no jpa annotations are used at all). 
- All entities extend a base entity declared in the orm.xml using <mapped-superclass ..> 

Problem:
Adding event declarations (pre-persist, pre-update ..) into orm.xml to the mapped-superclass does not bring any effect. These declarations seem to be ignored. Example:

public abstract class BaseEntity {

  private Timestamp insertTimestamp;
  private Timestamp lastUpdateTimestamp;

  public void onPersist() {
    ...   
  }

  public void onUpdate() {
    ...
  }
}

<mapped-superclass class="com.my.model.BaseEntity">
   <pre-persist method-name="onPersist"/>
   <pre-update method-name="onUpdate"/>
   <post-load method-name="postLoad"/>
</mapped-superclass> 

Replacing the xml definitions with annotations (@PreUpdate, @PrePersist, ..) directly in the BaseEntity class solves the problem. Also moving the xml declarations from the superclass to the subclass solved the problem.

It look like the bug while the parsing/mapping the <mapped-superclass> XML declaration. Event declarations seem to be ignored / don't work. The annotation-based equivalent seems to work correctly.

I'm using EclipseLink 2.2.0 with H2 in the SE environment developing under MacOs+IntelliJ

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an entity class and declare as entity using orm.xml
2. Create a superclass for the created entity class and declare in orm.xml using <mapped-superclass>
3. Add <pre-persist> and/or <pre-update> to the superclass in the orm.xml
4. Persist and/or update the entity and check wether the events method in the base class are being called.