[hibernate-dev] metamodel work

[Steve Ebersole]

Just a heads up of a few things for those of us working on the metamodel 
branch.

1) I just added the ability to have legacy-style HBM mappings parse 
properly using the JaxbHelper.  This is awesome because it allows us to 
keep the test mappings as-is for the time being and use them in both the 
older Configuration approach or the new metamodel approach, which is 
awesome in conjunction with...
2) Better passing of command-line system props to tests.  I changed the 
gradle script a little bit to pass any command line argument system 
property (-D) that starts with 'hibernate.' along to the process used to 
run the tests.  So now, for example, specifying 
`-Dhibernate.test.new_metadata_mappings=true` on the gradle command line 
actually gets that setting passed along to the tests as a system property.
3) Maybe this is useful in testing, maybe it isnt but a related change 
made along with (1) was the ability to disable XML validation.  The 
setting that controls this is 'hibernate.xml.validate' (default = true).

Next week I will start focusing on running the full test suite using the 
new_metadata_mappings settings enabled and start working on the "gaps" I 
find.

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