[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HBX-963) make "generated by" statement optional (or remove it)

[Dan Allen (JIRA)]

    [ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-963?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_27514 ] 

Dan Allen commented on HBX-963:
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Well, because that is not quite the whole story. The seam-gen tool allows you to get started with a prototype, relying on hbm2java to create the entities. As the team gets started with the prototype, they use seam-gen over and over for the first week until they are mostly happy with the output. Then, they break away from the generated code and start using it as regular code. During that time, it appears that each time the entities are generated, they all change.

Sure, it is a use case and we could just provide our own Pojo.ftl in the pojo/ directory of seam-gen. It's just that there isn't really a need for the timestamp. The date the file is written is enough to know when it was generated. The comment is just noise.

> make "generated by" statement optional (or remove it)
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBX-963
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-963
>             Project: Hibernate Tools
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: hbm2java
>    Affects Versions: 3.2beta9, 3.2beta10
>            Reporter: Dan Allen
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HBX-963-v1.txt
>
>   Original Estimate: 5 minutes
>  Remaining Estimate: 5 minutes
>
> If you are using a version control system to manage the Java classes generated by the hbm2java task, then every single time you run the task, it will appear as if every single file has changed, even when there are no changes to the Java code. The reason this happens is because the Pojo.ftl template includes a "generated by" statement that inserts the current date and time. JAXB does this as well and it drives me insane!
> I would prefer we just take out the date and time. There just isn't a good reason to have it and the headaches that it causes are not worth it.  I have included a patch to remove it.

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