<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">WDYT?<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Emmanuel Bernard <<a href="mailto:emmanuel@hibernate.org">emmanuel@hibernate.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> April 6, 2009 19:06:40<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hardy Ferentschik <<a href="mailto:hibernate@ferentschik.de">hibernate@ferentschik.de</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: ignore-annotations in super classes</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Good question.<br>I would say no. To do that, you would need to override the superclass or interface definition.<br><br>I think that makes it more consistent. Otherwise rules could become complex, I think.<br><br>PS I could be convince of the opposite but like the simplicity of the answer.<br><br>On Apr 6, 2009, at 18:59, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If I set ignore-annotations to true on bean, class, field or getter level, do I then also ignore the annotations placed on the appropriate level in the super classes (or other implemented interfaces in the case of class level)? I would assume thought, right?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--Hardy<br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>