Re: [hibernate-dev] annotation for adding column comments for hbm2doc

Hi all, I have done the following 1. Created org.hibernate.annotations.Column.java (Well, I know its very minor task ;-) ) 2. Understood code flow from AnnotationConfiguration --> AnnotationBinder (bindClass and EJB3Column.buildColumnFromAnnotation)--> EntityBinder(processComplementaryTableDefinitions). 3. Specifically I understood how org.hibernate.annotations.Table (comment) works Hence I tried to add column comment in similar fashion. The first hurdle I am facing is, the ColumnAnnotation class is not available at bindClass(). Here the code: AnnotationBinder.java { --- bindClass(..) { ---- --- //add process complementary Table definition (index & all) entityBinder.processComplementaryTableDefinitions( annotatedClass.getAnnotation( org.hibernate.annotations.Table.*class* ) ); //Prasanna org.hibernate.annotations.Table tablecomment = annotatedClass.getAnnotation( org.hibernate.annotations.Table.*class* ) ; *if*(*null* == tablecomment) System.*out*.println("Table annotation class not available"); *else* *if*(*null*!=tablecomment && *null*!=tablecomment.comment()) System.*out*.println(" tablecomment :"+tablecomment.comment()); *else* System.*out*.println(" tablecomment not available"); org.hibernate.annotations.Column columncomment = annotatedClass.getAnnotation( org.hibernate.annotations.Column.*class* ) ; *if*(*null* == columncomment) System.*out*.println(" Column Annotation class not available"); *else* *if*(*null* != columncomment && *null*!=columncomment.comment()) System.*out*.println(" columncomment :"+columncomment.comment()); *else* System.*out*.println(" column comment not available"); entityBinder.processComplementaryTableDefinitions( annotatedClass.getAnnotation( org.hibernate.annotations.Tables.*class* ) ); } } Here I always get "Column Annotation class not available". But not so in case in table annotation. It perfectly works. I tried adding Column Annotation class using AnnotationConfiguration --> addAnnotatedClass(..). But it didn't worked. Please see the attachment for the relevant files. Regards, Prasanna On 1/28/08, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: