[eclipselink-users] Defaults for @Table and @Column names

[natjohns <natjohns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Does anyone know if there is a way to change the way that JPA (or the 
eclipselink implemenation) generates default names for tables and 
columns when using the @Table and @Column annotations?  Or if this is 
being talked about for version 2 of the JPA spec?

What I'd like is something similar to what Grails does, where they 
change the camel capped Java names to underscores.  Here's an example:

Say you have an EmployeeInfo class and one of the members is 
defaultHomePhoneNumber.

Current Default in JPA:

Table name:  EMPLOYEEINFO
Column name: DEFAULTHOMEPHONENUMBER

It's kind of hard to read.  If we could specify a policy, say the camel 
caps to underscore policy, it would look like this:

Table name:  EMPLOYEE_INFO
Column name: DEFAULT_HOME_PHONE_NUMBER

Thanks all!  And I apoligize if this has been talked about already... I 
couldn't find anything in the searches.

Best,
Nate