[hibernate-dev] jandex-binding work

[Steve Ebersole]

BTW, I just pushed the work I have done so far on this:
https://github.com/sebersole/hibernate-core

There is one very simple test just to ensure that the basic binding works
properly.


On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:28 PM Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Wanted to point out the jandex-binding version in Jira that is the work to
> pull the annotation binding and Jandex usage from metamodel into upstream.
>
> I do not plan on pulling over the shared (shared between hbm.xml and
> annotations) Binder code from metamodel.  This will just be a focus on the
> code that uses Jandex instead of HCANN and the "binding context" code I
> already pulled over upstream as part of 5.0.
>
> The reason I mention this is that I started some work on this this week.
> For now I will work in my fork, but I do want to start thinking through the
> target versions for incorporating these major redesigns we have going).
>
> My plan for this stuff is to deprecate hbm.xml binding.  We have discussed
> this before.  So along with this, I will pull over the unified orm.xml XSD
> and we will start providing mapping support for that.  On metamodel, there
> is some on-the-fly transformation code, but I think we will put that on the
> back burner for now.  I see the next major rev of this work as ripping out
> the hbm.xml binding code completely but still for a short time continuing
> to support a subset of hbm.xml mapping via this on-the-fly
> transformation[1].  And there will also be a (build time) transformation
> tool based on that code.
>
>
> [1] - The things that we cannot readily transform is a very small set of
> things.  Really property-ref is the only thing that comes to mind.
>