Call method in JPA

JPQL is translated into SQL, so you cannot include a Java method call, as your database (most likely) does not support Java.

In JPA 2.1 you will be able to use the FUNCTION operator to call "database" functions. Some database do support defining functions in Java, but normally a proprietary database language is used (such as PL/SQL).

EclipseLink supports both FUNC and FUNCTION operators for calling database functions. You can also define your own operators using the OPERATOR operator which allows you to define your own custom database function call in Java.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/UserGuide/JPA/Basic_JPA_Development/Querying/JPQL#EclipseLink_special_operators

JPQL is not exactly an object-based query language. You can't define your own methods, and JPQL provides a very limited set of functions. So if you want to keep within the JPA spec then the answer is no; would have to be JPA-implementation specific - DataNucleus JPA certainly allows you to have your own methods in the query language (as a vendor extension), no idea about your quoted JPA provider - that said though, it would only execute such a query in the datastore if you put the code for that method in a query method implementation (as opposed to in the class)

Yes, you can! And no additional annotations are required.

ObjectDB is an implementation of an object-oriented database system (OODBS) and as a result allows you to interact with database items as objects, that includes calling methods, using inheritance and polymorphism, etc.

This is a simple working example I have. With a class like this:

@Entity
public class Person {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id @GeneratedValue
    private long id;

    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;

    Person(String firstName, String lastName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }

    public String getFullName() {
        return firstName + " " + lastName;
    }
}

This query returns correct results:

entityManager.createQuery(
    "SELECT p FROM Person p WHERE p.getFullName()='John Johnson'", Person.class).getResultList();