Better use of annotations for custom types ------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-5483 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5483 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: annotations Reporter: Xavier Dury Priority: Minor Better use of annotations for custom types. Allow org.hibernate.annotations.Type to be used on annotations like this: public interface AnnotationConfiguredType<A extends Annotation> { void configure(A configuration); } @Retention(RUNTIME) @Target({FIELD, METHOD}) @Type(type = "...CustomDateType") public @interface CustomDate { String pattern() default "yyyy-MM-dd"; boolean lenient() default true; ... } public class CustomDateType implements UserType, AnnotatedConfiguredType<CustomDate> { public void configure(CustomDate configuration) { ... } ... } @Entity public class MyEntity { @CustomDate(pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy") private Date date; ... } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira