[hibernate-dev] embed-xml=false leaves you stuck

[Bill Burke]

I was looking at the XML mapping support for Hibernate recently and have 
some questions/suggestions.

One thing that seriously annoyed me was that if you do not have 
embed-xml="true" you can never get access to an association/relationship 
in XML format.  This means that I cannot have embed-xml="false" and load 
the relationship with a fetch join.  Is there any particular reason I'm 
missing here on why it was implemented in this fashion?

I know you have to worry about circular references, but isn't that 
something the user/app developer can worry about instead of Hibernate?

I'll get into later why this is a problem for me...


Bill

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