Re: [hibernate-dev] hibernate-extras

My main issue with database connections for configration and sessionfactory building is: 1) The database might not be needed at all (e.g. for pure codegeneration from the metadata) 2) The database might not be running at all when doing development (related to 1) 3) It can be *really* slow to create connections and read metadata (gives bad user experience in an ui) 4) Not all users have access rights to read this metadata information So iff this gets added to the dialect then I would say the following should be true: 1) There should be an option/flag for not giving the dialects the option to spend time getting the metadata 2) Since the dialects might not get the connection or the user does not have proper rights to inspect the metadata they should have sensible defaults anyway - or even be able to get the base information like major/minor version from other settings etc. -- -- 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