Request to reevaluate HB-978 ---------------------------- Key: HBX-27 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-27 Project: Hibernate Tools Issue Type: Bug Components: hbm2java Environment: All Reporter: Michael Kimberlin Fix For: 3.2LATER Attachments: LogEntry.hbm.xml Original Estimate: 4 hours Remaining Estimate: 4 hours I would like to see HB-978 reevaluated based on the solution offered to the issue of preservation of the equals contract in the section "Easy Fix" of the article: http://www.agiledeveloper.com/articles/equals062002.htm In it's current state, the joined-subclass is only limitedly useful for those of us generating our persistent classes with hbm2java. Correcting the equals problem would allow developers to make use of commonality of persistant objects in code by referring to a parent class. While work arounds are available, they are not quite natural from a data composition standpoint...and they tend to result in more complicated code.