It was just never really finished. It had lots of "holes". And no one ever stepped up to take it on. On Sun 14 Oct 2012 02:11:11 AM CDT, Claude Mamo wrote: > Hi, > > We have a project where we have have to map an XML document to a > relational model. I've discovered that with Hibernate 3 you could do > this via the EntityMode.DOM4J. Unfortunately, the feature was removed in > Hibernate 4 (https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-6879). I know the > feature was experimental, however, are there other reasons for removing > this feature? For example, was it implemented inefficiently? > > Thanks, > > Claude >