[eclipselink-dev] Opinion request: Persisting non-entity subclass of Ent

[Tom Ware <tom.ware@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

  I am wondering if anyone has an opinion about the following:

  At the moment, EclipseLink does not throw an exception when you persist a 
subclass of an Entity that is not annotated as an Entity.  Instead, it treats it 
as though it is the superclass and persists the superclass.

  The following bug has been entered because of this issue:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=237281

  Note: Although the bug claims we throw the incorrect exception in this case, 
my recreation of this issue shows we continue without any issue at all.

  It seems that although the EclipseLink behavior actually allows some 
additional use cases not supported by the spec, this behavior is, strictly 
speaking, a spec violation.

  Does anyone have an opinion about whether we should keep the current behavior 
as an option?

Thanks in advance,
Tom