We develop a
EJB enterprise application and plan to release that application next year. At the moment we debate how to deliver fix application data and how we could handle patches. With fix application data I mean all data that is necessary to work with the application (Access rights, general configuration data, ...).
Some of our developers thinks the best way to deliver such data are native sql scripts. The other part said the easiest way to deliver the data is to create classes that insert the data over some dao functionality.
Because creating indices though JPA is not possible we need sql scripts to insert them. Because of that I tend to provide the data though native sql scripts.
What functionality do you use to provide the data? Is there a "best" way to do this?