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

Emmanuel Bernard emmanuel at hibernate.org
Wed Dec 12 08:47:56 EST 2007


Probably the best strategy is to think about it when we work on the  
fetch profile strategy.

On  Dec 12, 2007, at 03:02, Bill Burke wrote:

> 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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