It's used to allow injecting global meta tags when generating code via hibernate tools. Depending on how hibernate 4 refactoring goes we might not need it anymore...i.e. since hibernate tools would need a rewrite anyway ;0) /max On Oct 16, 2010, at 21:25, Steve Ebersole wrote: > HBMBinder.bindRoot excepts a java.util.Map parameters called > 'inheritedMetas'. Thing is, that parameter is really useless. That > method is called from a single place in the Hibernate Core code and that > value is defined as CollectionHelper.EMPTY_MAP in said caller. > > So either this code changed in such a way that this parameter was no > longer needed but never removed, or another project uses it differently. > Do we need this passed in still? > > --- > Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; > http://hibernate.org > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev