10.7.5. Configuration

10.7.5.1. Configure Envers Parameters

Task Summary
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 uses entity auditing, through Hibernate Envers, to track the historical changes of a persistent class. This topic covers configuring the available Envers parameters.

Procedure 10.9. Configure Envers Parameters

  1. Open the persistence.xml file for the application.
  2. Add, remove or configure Envers properties as required. For a list of available properties, refer to Section 10.7.5.4, “Envers Configuration Properties”.

Example 10.29. Example Envers Parameters

<persistence-unit ...>
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<class>...</class>
<properties>
   <property name="hibernate.dialect" ... />
   <!-- other hibernate properties -->

   <property name="hibernate.ejb.event.post-insert"
             value="org.hibernate.ejb.event.EJB3PostInsertEventListener,org.hibernate.envers.event.AuditEventListener" />
   <property name="hibernate.ejb.event.post-update"
             value="org.hibernate.ejb.event.EJB3PostUpdateEventListener,org.hibernate.envers.event.AuditEventListener" />
   <property name="hibernate.ejb.event.post-delete"
             value="org.hibernate.ejb.event.EJB3PostDeleteEventListener,org.hibernate.envers.event.AuditEventListener" />
   <property name="hibernate.ejb.event.pre-collection-update"
             value="org.hibernate.envers.event.AuditEventListener" />
   <property name="hibernate.ejb.event.pre-collection-remove"
             value="org.hibernate.envers.event.AuditEventListener" />
   <property name="hibernate.ejb.event.post-collection-recreate"
             value="org.hibernate.envers.event.AuditEventListener" />

   <property name="org.hibernate.envers.versionsTableSuffix" value="_V" />
   <property name="org.hibernate.envers.revisionFieldName" value="ver_rev" />
   <!-- other envers properties -->
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
Result
Auditing has been configured for all JPA entities in the application.