[hibernate-dev] Envers in Hibernate

[Steve Ebersole]

The idea, moving forward, is to start pushing the Annotations approach
more than we do now.  Not to deprecate xml mappings per-se but certainly
to start looking at Annotations as the preferred approach.  At that
point we'd stop developing the HbmBinder code (aside from bug fixes).
Note that this is completely distinct from pushing EntityManager use
over straight Session use; we are just talking about Annotations instead
of externalized hbm.xml.

Would you be interested in adding this support to the XML/DTD and
HbmBinder + metdata?
  
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Steve Ebersole
Project Lead
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On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:31 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Adam Warski wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >>> Though I'd have to do some adaptation changes. As I was originally
> >>> targeting Envers to support JPA mappings, I assumed that it will be
> >>> working in an enviroment with Hibernate Annotations/EntityManager. So
> >>> I used ReflectionManager to read the @Versioned annotations. In a
> >>> pure Hibernate environment, this will not work.
> >>
> >> I don't think that making Envers a module in Core means that you
> >> cannot use
> >> Hibernate Annotations/EnityManager. In fact these two projects are
> >> about to be
> >> moved back into Core. As their own (maven) modules of course.
> > 
> > Ah, ok. Then Envers would have a dependency on the annotations module (+
> > users would have to use AnnotationConfiguration instead of
> > Configuration). Makes sense, as you configure Envers through annotations
> > (mark classes as versioned/historized), so you probably also use
> > Annotations/EntityManager then, not "pure" Hibernate.
> 
> Personally, I'm still a fan of plain Hibernate non-JPA config. Could the
>  integration be done with a mind to making it possible to configure
> Envers via a standard Configuration in a future release?
> 
> Max.
> 
> 
> 
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