Join the Apache OpenJPA Community

The Apache OpenJPA project is being built by the open source community for the open source community - we welcome your input and contributions!

What we are looking for

• Source code and fixes contributions
• Test cases for issues encountered during application development
• Documentation assistance
• Product and feature suggestions
• Detailed and constructive feedback
• Articles and whitepapers

How do I Contribute?

• To discuss Apache OpenJPA topics check out the mailing lists.
• Bugs and other issues can be posted on the project JIRA.

I have encountered an issue with OpenJPA. What do I do now?

• Post a message to OpenJPA User's list to discuss the issue.
• Search existing issues to see whether someone had already encountered the same issue.
• If this issue is never encountered before, create a JIRA issue.
• Develop a test case to demonstrate the issue. Here are some useful tips and guidelines on how to develop a test case to contribute to OpenJPA repository.
• Attach the new test to JIRA issue.
• Check out the Found a Bug page for more details on creating and submitting patches.

I have encountered an issue with OpenJPA and have fixed it in the OpenJPA source code. How do I get the changes into OpenJPA?

• Create a JIRA issue that describes the changes you've made (you'll need an Apache JIRA account to do this).
• Check out the OpenJPA source code and make your changes.
• Create test cases to validate your changes. Here are some useful tips and guidelines on how to develop a test case to contribute to OpenJPA repository.
• 'svn add' any new files.
• Run 'mvn test -Dtest=<MyTestCase>' to validate your change. You need to specify the test to run by its simple name without package name.
• Run the checkin tests by running 'mvn test' for any possible regression. This should take 20-50 minutes or so depending on the release branch.
• Check out the Found a Bug page for more details on creating and submitting patches.
• Wait for a committer to review and check in your changes.