title: Convert dynamic web project to JPA project?
body: <p>I have a dynamic web project in eclipse luna EE. I am supposed to use EclipseLink and JPA to manage the persistence. I want to create the entity classes for each of these classes from database tables in a mysql server. I saw the steps for this at : <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/juno/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.jpt.doc.user%2Ftasks021.htm" rel="nofollow">Generating entities from tables (help.eclipse.org)</a></p>
  
  <p>The steps in the above tutorial are applicable only to a JPA project. So, I right click my project > configure and see convert to JPA project, convert to plugin project, convert to maven project.</p>
  
  <p>There is another <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15315_09/help/oracle.eclipse.tools.orm.doc/html/files/genJPAEntities.html" rel="nofollow">way</a> to convert a project to JPA. Right click project > JPA tools etc.. But I do not see the JPA tools option there.</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking of converting it to a JPA project. But, I am not confident if I should do it. Will my dynamic web app continue to work properly if I do it ? What is the meaning of those 3 configuration options ? I'd like to know before I proceed.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>