From: "Steve Ebersole" <steven.ebersole(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "Gail Badner" <gbadner(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Hibernate hibernate-dev" <hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:16:23 AM Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] MetadataSourceProcessor and associations What you mention is in fact possible. And I have never been very hopeful about the "chasing" approach... On Wed 23 Jan 2013 01:13:48 PM CST, Gail Badner wrote: > Is it possible for an entity containing one side of an association > be mapped using annotations and the entity containing the opposite > side of the association be mapped using an hbm mapping? > > For example, suppose Order has annotations: > > @OneToMany( mappedby="order" ) > List<OrderLine> Order.orderLines > > OrderLine is mapped using hbm.xml with: > > <many-to-one name="order"/> > > If annotations are processed first, then, IIUC, when > Order.orderLines is processed, the mapping for OrderLine won't be > found (via chasing) because the > AnnotationMetadataSourceProcessorImpl does not have the source for > the OrderLine mapping. As a result, the OrderLine EntityBinding > will not be able to be built until HbmMetadataSourceProcessorImpl > is processed. > > If so, this poses a fundamental problem with entity "chasing" as it > is implemented now, since the associated entity would not be > processed by the same MetadataSourceProcessor. > > Am I missing something here? > > Thanks, > Gail > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev