Re: [hibernate-dev] [HSEARCH] [Autodiscoverable] AnnotatedElement

On 1 Jan 2014, at 16:36, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > ## AnnotatedElement > > Hardy does not like us being tied to the actual physical annotation objects. I tend to agree with him as we would need to fake it for free-form entities. > Since he worked on Jandex and the ORM side of parsing, he will work on a proposal that abstracts us away from AnnotatedElement. > The alternative is to pass the XLayer objects but not everyone is fine of that abstraction. +1 Need to think a bit about it.