JPA 2.0 tools without persistence.xml

Persistence.xml-free configuration is possible.
You just need JPA and Spring facets and a Spring Annotation or XML (config file set) configuration.

See these demos how to setup an annotation configuration:
http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2012/02/annotationconfigapplicationcontext-support-in-intellij-idea-111/

Once completed all persistence units should automatically appear in Persistence toolwindow.

Hello Gregory Shrago,

Once completed all persistence units should automatically appear in Persistence toolwindow.

Thank you for the tip. I managed to do that with my persistence.xml-free & Java-based spring configuration projects.
Indeed the Persistence tool window is populated with data, and I even can see the ORM diagram.
All seems ok except the fact I didn't managed to run JPAQL queries against this configuration.
Did you managed to run JPAQL against such as configurations?

Thank you in advance.

Note: I created a persistence.xml file (which replicate the persistence.xml free configuration) in order to run all JPA queries.

I've checked this and QL console really doesn't work so I've created ticket for you, sorry for delay.

http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-87167

The fix will be available in the next 11.1.3 EAP.

http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-87167



The fix will be available in the next 11.1.3 EAP.

Thank you Gregory. That's great.