[hibernate-dev] metamodel work

Just a heads up of a few things for those of us working on the metamodel branch. 1) I just added the ability to have legacy-style HBM mappings parse properly using the JaxbHelper. This is awesome because it allows us to keep the test mappings as-is for the time being and use them in both the older Configuration approach or the new metamodel approach, which is awesome in conjunction with... 2) Better passing of command-line system props to tests. I changed the gradle script a little bit to pass any command line argument system property (-D) that starts with 'hibernate.' along to the process used to run the tests. So now, for example, specifying `-Dhibernate.test.new_metadata_mappings=true` on the gradle command line actually gets that setting passed along to the tests as a system property. 3) Maybe this is useful in testing, maybe it isnt but a related change made along with (1) was the ability to disable XML validation. The setting that controls this is 'hibernate.xml.validate' (default = true). Next week I will start focusing on running the full test suite using the new_metadata_mappings settings enabled and start working on the "gaps" I find. -- steve(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org