[hibernate-dev] overriding target through annotations

[Emmanuel Bernard]

I agree with your analysis, but @MapKeyTarget vs @o.h.a.MapKey / 
@o.h.a.MapKeyManyToMany enhancement with target is not influenced by the 
@j.p.MapKey design flaws.

Pros of each solution are
1. @MapKeyTarget
SoC (Relational descriptions are split from Object descriptions in 
annotations)
@Target and @MapKeyTarget are consistent

2. no @MapKeyTarget
No extra @MapKeyTarget annotation



Christian Bauer wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2006, at 9:23 PM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>
>> Note that I hope the future spec will hopefully handle all cases 
>> nicely (ie add a targetElement in @Embedded), @MapKey should go to 
>> back the drawing board from a spec POV so we can think of something 
>> clean from the begining.
>
> I'm for 2., because @javax.persistence.MapKey is really completely 
> useless and has to be redesigned (looks like a legacy case that one of 
> the EG members had and thought that it would be useful). So enhance 
> @org.hibernate.annotations.MapKey and create a @Target that works for 
> @Embedded.
>
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