Re: [hibernate-dev] What is the easiest and safest way to customize Hiberate for other entity mode?

A DTO object normally has some structure; otherwise how do users know what to get from it ? :) the lack of setter/getters is not a problem since we have both Tuplizer and PropertyAccessors to deal with this. And the dynamic part is probably not something you want to reflect down to the persistence layer/db since then you would end up having a schema layout of two tables Entities and Attributes which is rarely usefull. I'm not up to speed with how a SDO actually looks like. Is it something like: class Employee extends SDOObject { public String getName() { return getAttribute("name").asString(); } public int getAge() { return getAttribute("age").asInt(); } public Set getFriends() .. } or SDOObject employee = new SDOObject("Employee); employee.setAttribute("name", "Ed"); employee.setAttribute("age", 12); employee.setCollection("friends", <set of other SDO's>) ? The first one should be trivial to do The second one is harder since it requires you to be explicit about what "type" the actual instance is. /max -- -- Max Rydahl Andersen callto://max.rydahl.andersen Hibernate max(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org JBoss a division of Red Hat max.andersen(a)jboss.com