Eclipse has pretty cool JPA Structure and JPA Detail views along with a persistence.xml editor and a JPA perspective. However, I cannot seem to get them to "turn on". I had them all working several months ago, but something must have changed.
Any tips as to what secret sauce is needed to get them working again?
I don't really use Dali but if I recall correctly you need to add the Java Persistence Facet to your project (right-click on a project then go to Properties > Project Facets and select Java Persistence). Maybe have a look at the Getting Starting guide.
Turns out this is a bug with Dali not understanding the Maven way of filter resources:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251323
Who knows when this gets fixed, but I got around it by removing the "**" exclusion on my persistence module's resources directory in the build path. I basically included Meta-Inf and excluded everthing else.
I then did a project->clean.
Hope this helps somebody....