[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (ANN-9) Support interface inheritance mapping

[Pascal Alberty (JIRA)]

    [ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-9?page=comments#action_26298 ] 

Pascal Alberty commented on ANN-9:
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Craig and Christian,

don't take it for yourself. Sorry if my words were too strong and thank you for your job.
Hibernate is great ... even without the interface annotation support which would be a great enhancement :-)

> Support interface inheritance mapping
> -------------------------------------
>
>          Key: ANN-9
>          URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-9
>      Project: Hibernate Annotations
>         Type: Improvement

>   Components: binder
>     Versions: 3.1beta3
>     Reporter: Gili
>  Attachments: hibernate3-annotations-3.1beta5-3896-3948.diff, hibernate3-annotations-3.1beta5-3896-4138.diff
>
>
> It should be possible to create a mapping with interfaces, as described by the documentation here: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html_single/#inheritance-tableperclass
> Specifically right now it is impossible to annotate interfaces and according to HBX-231 even if you could @Entity is only meant to get used on classes so the question becomes "what do you annotate it with?"
> As I pointed out here http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?p=2238824#2238824 the additional problem seems to be that XDoclet doesn't support interface annotation either (http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/xdoclet/browse/XDT-1345) so I'm left without a workaround.
> I can't convert the interfaces to abstract classes because I implement multiple interfaces in my application and Java does not do multiple inheritance.
> If you know of a nice workaround, please let me know :)

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