A colleague over the corridor expended 63 minutes of his life attempting to enter a very simple travel claim and a leave pass for the Bank Holiday weekend (for we must now do that) and didn't even get to finish the transactions.
JPA is the worst introduction of a system I've ever seen - and I have seen some stinkers. If anyone else had tried to introduce something like this (anyone who accepts that ISO 9000 or QA or anything with standards exixts) they would have been told to go away and get it right.
Good idea, badly managed, badly introduced. A trait of military projects???