[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-1485) Addition of mapping-bundle or similar feature to configuration file

[Steve Ebersole (JIRA)]

     [ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1485?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Steve Ebersole closed HHH-1485.
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Closing stale resolved issues

> Addition of mapping-bundle or similar feature to configuration file
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>                 Key: HHH-1485
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1485
>             Project: Hibernate Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>         Environment: Any
>            Reporter: tenwit
>            Assignee: Steve Ebersole
>            Priority: Trivial
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> Many of the projects I work on result in jars that use hibernate to provide data access facilities to multiple applications (e.g. separate bulk import applications, reporting applications, web and swing front-ends, all over the same DB).  Many of these applications use several jars (because they deal with data from several databases).  Each application has to maintain its own set of <mapping> elements in its .cfg.xml file.  These are getting very cumbersome now: the apps that deal with all of the databases have upwards of 120 .hbm.xml files imported.
> I'd like to suggest a new file, maybe a .map.xml file, that bundles <mapping> elements but doesn't do any configuration stuff.  Each of the jars could include one of these files, which would be imported much like individual mapping files (a new <mapping-bundle> element in the .cfg.xml file, maybe?).  The file format wouldn't need anything more than a <mapping-bundle> top level element, and the <mapping> element already in the .cfg.xml files.  This would reduce the maintenance effort required in apps that follow the same sort of model as mine do.

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