Firstly, the API *should* use Class objects to reduce the possibility of runtime errors. I forget which project I saw recently that had used strings and was now moving to using class objects. Internally, we *could* use classnames, but that would be slower, right? Its much quicker to take an identityHashCode than to compute the hash of a (possibly quite long) String. Or am I wrong on this?
As for why can't we compile mappings without the classes, thats because various things (property types, etc) may be determined by reflection. I still think this is a nice feature. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Rydahl Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "hibernate list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [Hibernate] Hooking into Hibernate classloader > > > But this doesn't handle things like SessionFactory.getClassMetadata, > > which takes a Class. > > Just asking out of personal interest :) > why is everything in hibernate bound up onto Class objects, why not > fully-qualifed-names in > the form of strings instead ? > > That would make it more flexible and resistant to things that might not be > availble on the classpath > and e.g. make it possible to load internal mapping model and use it for > codegeneration and other > stuff which in its nature cannot rely on the classing being in the > classpath. > > /max > > > Which leads me to believe that maybe it is better > > to keep this all out of Hibernate and just say that it's up to the > > application to wrap the Session, SessionFactory, and other public > > interfaces appropriately. > > > > -Chris > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
