[hibernate-dev] new metamodel code

[Steve Ebersole]

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Basically we will go with option 1.  We will add package.html 
(package-info?) to state that the org.hibernate.metamodel package is 
experimental and a work in progress.

This Wednesday's release will be CR1 for 4.0


On 08/15/2011 12:08 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> This follows up on a discussion from today's irc developer meeting, so
> see notes for backstory
>
> The new metamodel code is taking a lot longer than anticipated. Those of
> us at the meeting agreed that we do not see it being finished in the
> next 2-4 weeks which is kind of the outside edge I wanted to see for 4.0
> so we will be dropping that work as milestone for the 4.0 release.
>
> Which means we need to decide on how to move forward on 4.0. The options
> brought up during the meeting include:
> 1) Just keep the Configuration and org.hibernate.mapping stuff in place
> 2) Use org.hibernate.metamodel.MetadataSources,
> org.hibernate.metamodel.Metadata, etc but retrofit them to use
> org.hibernate.mapping stuff
> 3) Just keep chugging with 4.0 and upstream projects (JBoss AS, for
> example) will just need to use 3.6
>
> Each of those have associated pros and cons (again see meeting minutes).
> Lets meet up quickly tomorrow at same time as normal dev meeting and
> vote on these and discuss other alternatives.
>

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