JPA and REST commands are used in the Java EE addon but could perform differently when using another technology (like Spring Boot, for example).

Example:

JPA: In Spring Boot, there is no persistence.xml, but an application.properties file that contains the necessary information.

REST: Even though JAX-RS is not used, the generated REST endpoints would need extra annotations to perform correctly. This is accomplished now

Right now the JPASetupWizard for example delegates the action to a PersistenceOperations class directly. It would be nice if we could introduce some indirection (or even extract to a common addon) in the commands.execute() method.

One idea is to have a Command -> Facet -> Operations sequence, so other technologies (like Spring Boot) could reuse the same command by only implementing a different facet.