On 14 Jan 2013, at 8:45 PM, Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/05/building-smart-builders.html
Personally I had never seen this as a defined pattern before, but its
actually quite similar to the design for building a SessionFactory in
metamodel that we scoped out in Stockholm meeting.
Right, I never heard step builder pattern before either, but it is indeed very similar
to what we do. So maybe we don't have it so wrong after all ;-)
--Hardy