Eclipse, JPA 2.0 metamodel generator and Spring Roo working together

Question

Is there a way to put Spring Roo and JPA 2.0 metamodel generator to work together?

I have a Spring Roo project and use Eclipse as IDE. I was able to configure the Eclipse project and maven pom.xml to use JPA 2.0 metamodel generator in the build/compile process. The problem is, the generator doesn't generate metamodel classes for Roo entities (that is, domain classes that are annotatted with @Roo* annotations).

I created an entity "by hand" and confirmed that the generator is properly configured. I suspect that the generator fail for Roo entities because it doesn't understand AspectJ IDT classes. Is there a way to make the generator work for Roo entities?

Oh, before I forget, these are my configurations:

• STS 2.5.1
• Spring Roo 1.1.0
• Project configuration:
  • Annotation processing enabled
  • Factory path contains hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.0.Final.jar and hibernate-jpamodelgen-1.1.0.Final.jar
• pom.xml
  • Included http://maven-annotation-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/mavenrepo as a plugin repository
  • Added org.hibernate:hibernate-jpamodelgen:1.1.0.Final as dependency
  • Added and configured org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin:1.5 to include src/generated/java as a maven source folder
  • Added and configured org.bsc.maven:maven-processor-plugin to run org.hibernate.jpamodelgen.JPAMetaModelEntityProcessor and place the generated code at src/generated/java

I can give further details if necessary. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You should probably take a look at model2roo project.

http://code.google.com/p/model2roo/