[hibernate-dev] Hibernate ORM - next steps

Now that 5.0 is settling down I wanted to start planning where we go from here in terms of feature development and schedule/releases. Here is my high-level list of features/work: * rework SQL generation & HQL parser * change JDBC extraction to work by position, rather than alias (reworking SQL generation is a prerequisite) * rework annotation binding (Jandex, etc) * extended orm.xml, deprecate hbm.xml * discriminator-based multi-tenancy * port Hibernate Criteria constructs to JPA criteria, begin deprecation of Hibernate Criteria * extend JPA criteria API with fluent support * ability to override EAGER fetching with LAZY (fetch profiles, HQL, etc) * merging hibernate-entitymanager into hibernate-core * continue to fill out bytecode enhancement capabilities Some of these are more involved than others. The task for re-writing SQL generation is a HUGE undertaking, but also has many huge benefits. Re-writing annotation binding is another huge undertaking, but again with many benefits. Any others we should add to the list here? And then we can work on scheduling them.