JPA2.0 banned in Poland!

Yeah really! So I thought it’s time to play a little bit with the brand new JPA2.0 specification. I tried the Hibernate vendor, but since its implementation is still in beta and was throwing more exceptions then I thought a beta should throw, I thought I would give an EclipseLink a try.

Eclipse Link is a former Toplink and now (ever since given back to the community) a reference implementation of JPA standard. Reading this site I learned that to get started with the EclipseLink using Maven, you need to add one dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
  <artifactId>eclipselink</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.0</version>
  <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

But Eclipse Link is still not in the main repo1 repository, so you have to add Eclipse repo information to your pom.xml.

<repository>
   <id>EclipseLink Repo</id>
   <url>http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&nf=1&file=/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo</url>
</repository>

And here where the fun begins. If you open repository link (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&nf=1&file=/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo) in your browser  it will redirect you to a nearest mirror near you. Well, for people living in Poland this mirror is http://ftp.man.poznan.pl/eclipse/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo/. The problem is that polish mirror not only lacks the 2.0.0 final implementation, but also you can find eclipse link in 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT version catalogue, but the content of the catalogue will be empty (it has metadata but no jars!). All that is there is just milestonses, nothing else.

So dear readers, EclipseLink JPA2.0 is banned in Poland. It’s official :).

Thanks to the Wicket User Group we can work around this ban, using Belgium mirror repository http://eclipse.a3-system.be/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo. So this should work in your pom.xml:

<repository>
   <id>EclipseLink Repo</id>
   <url>http://eclipse.a3-system.be/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo</url>
</repository>

Funny, isn’t it? 🙂