[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (ANN-527) reference a target entity (in a collection) by entity name

[Armin Haaf (JIRA)]

reference a target entity (in a collection) by entity name
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         Key: ANN-527
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-527
     Project: Hibernate Annotations
        Type: New Feature

  Components: binder  
    Reporter: Armin Haaf


It is only possible to reference a targetEntity by class.

@ManyToMany(targetEntity = TestImpl.class)
List<Test> myList;

This makes it impossible to exchange TestImpl.class implemention by another implemention by the mappings definition.

It would be helpful to reference a targetEntity by name.

@ManyToMany(targetEntityName = "Test")

This would help a lot to implement moduls and frameworks.


Another way to support this would be to search for a implementation of the collection elements (which are typically Interfaces) in the mapped entities 


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