[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (METAGEN-24) Create a mechanism to check whether xml files have changed

Create a mechanism to check whether xml files have changed ---------------------------------------------------------- Key: METAGEN-24 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/METAGEN-24 Project: Hibernate StaticMetamodel Generator Issue Type: Task Reporter: Hardy Ferentschik Assignee: Hardy Ferentschik Fix For: 1.0.0-CR-1 Since we cannot keep information between processor runs we will have to use some sort of file based mechanism. The processor could create a file when the xml files were parsed. The location of the the file could be passed as parameter or if not passed the VM tmp dir location is used. Each time the processor runs it checks whether any of the xml files is younger then the created tmp file. We could en- and dis-able this feature via another flag.