Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate.next version and AS 7.2 community release...
On 26 Jun 2012, at 21:37, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
Ok that sounds all nice. But we need programmatic definition of
annotations too, you remember Hibernate Search right?
How is that conceptually different than XML defined ones?
The first point you make about the XClass abstraction sounds to me a
good one, a good reason to use it. It doesn't have to be big and
bloated, but if we have a simple way to abstract from the annotation
reading
- XML
- Class definitions
- programmatic overrides
That's where the Jandex index comes in. It can abstract all of this and once all the
right information is in the index we just use it to process the annotation (real or pseudo
ones).
in a single API, that sounds like a good thing?
Right, that's what I want as well
You mention this API
is confusing, maybe we can improve on it?
Why, when there is a better approach?
Sounds better than to have
to deal with the three sources independently.
We won't have to.
--hardy