[hibernate-dev] Configuring lazy groups via XML

[Steve Ebersole]

Bytecode enhancement of any kind is only supported for annotated entities.
I definitely would like to get into supporting XML metadata as well,
although I doubt it would ever be done for HBM mappings.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:18 AM Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As per an answer of Vlad in the forum [1], the lazy fetch groups new in ORM
> 5.1 are only supported via annotations.
>
> Is that a temporary solution and XML support for lazy groups is planned
> eventually (if not in HBM but then via some means of extension point in
> orm.xml)?
>
> In other words, is our strategy to keep annotations and XML (again, be it
> HBM or through extensions in orm.xml) equally powerful? Or are we indeed
> considering annotations as the "preferred way" and add new functionality
> only there?
>
> Personally I'd hope for the former, as there are use cases for both and it
> should be left to users which one to take.
>
> Taking a step back, it's not specifically XML I'm attached to, but *some
> means* of external configuration of mappings as opposed to internal
> configuration via annotations on the model itself. In the No-ORM projects
> we provide APIs which allow to apply the same configuration as via
> annotations for that purpose. Maybe that'd be a good thing for ORM, too?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Gunnar
>
> [1] https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1043183
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