Author: epbernard Date: 2010-03-10 08:21:46 -0500 (Wed, 10 Mar 2010) New Revision: 18958 Modified: core/trunk/annotations/src/main/docbook/en/master.xml Log: HHH-4933 clean the preface of Hibernate Annotations docs Modified: core/trunk/annotations/src/main/docbook/en/master.xml =================================================================== --- core/trunk/annotations/src/main/docbook/en/master.xml 2010-03-10 11:03:08 UTC (rev 18957) +++ core/trunk/annotations/src/main/docbook/en/master.xml 2010-03-10 13:21:46 UTC (rev 18958) @@ -61,39 +61,29 @@ <para>Hibernate, like all other object/relational mapping tools, requires metadata that governs the transformation of data from one representation - to the other. In Hibernate 2.x mapping metadata is most of the time - declared in XML text files. Alternatively XDoclet can be used utilizing - Javadoc source code annotations together with a compile time preprocessor. + to the other. Hibernate Annotations provides annotation-based mapping metadata. </para> - <para>The same kind of annotation support is now available in the standard - JDK, although more powerful and with better tools support. IntelliJ IDEA - and Eclipse for example, support auto-completion and syntax highlighting - of JDK 5.0 annotations which are compiled into the bytecode and read at - runtime using reflection. No external XML files are needed.</para> - - <para>The EJB3 specification recognizes the interest and the success of + <para>The JPA specification recognizes the interest and the success of the transparent object/relational mapping paradigm. It standardizes the basic APIs and the metadata needed for any object/relational persistence - mechanism. <emphasis>Hibernate EntityManager</emphasis> implements the - programming interfaces and lifecycle rules as defined by the EJB3 + mechanism. + <emphasis>Hibernate EntityManager</emphasis> implements the + programming interfaces and lifecycle rules as defined by the JPA persistence specification and together with <emphasis>Hibernate - Annotations</emphasis> offers a complete (and standalone) EJB3 persistence - solution on top of the mature Hibernate core. You may use a combination of - all three together, annotations without EJB3 programming interfaces and - lifecycle, or even pure native Hibernate, depending on the business and - technical needs of your project. At all times you cann fall back to + Annotations</emphasis> offers a complete (and standalone) JPA persistence + solution on top of the mature Hibernate Core. You may use a combination of + all three together, annotations without JPA programming interfaces and + lifecycle, or even pure native Hibernate Core, depending on the business and + technical needs of your project. At all time you can fall back to Hibernate native APIs, or if required, even to native JDBC and SQL.</para> <para>This release of <emphasis>Hibernate Annotations</emphasis> is based - on the final release of the EJB 3.0 / JPA specification (aka <ulink - url="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=220">JSR-220</ulink>) and + on the final release of the JPA 2 specification (aka <ulink + url="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317">JSR-317</ulink>) and supports all its features (including the optional ones). Hibernate specific features and extensions are also available through - unstandardized, Hibernate specific annotations. While the Hibernate - feature coverage is high, some can not yet be expressed via annotations. - The eventual goal is to cover all of them. See the JIRA road map section - for more informations.</para> + unstandardized, Hibernate specific annotations.</para> <para>If you are moving from previous Hibernate Annotations versions, please have a look at <ulink url="http://www.hibernate.org/398.html">Java