Re: [Hibernate] Commit of pre-alpha Hibernate Metadata annotations (JSR-175)

2004-04-08 Thread Ugo Cei
Gavin King wrote: I disagree. It is an ease-of-use feature. It is just soo much easier when everything is in one place. cross-referencing between mappings and sourcecode is always a pain, especially since my IDE can't help me. Note also that we reduce total LOC, since more info can be inferred f

Re: [Hibernate] Commit of pre-alpha Hibernate Metadata annotations (JSR-175)

2004-04-08 Thread Emmanuel Bernard
Hibernate use Metadata at *runtime*, there is no hbm generation. Les Hazlewood wrote: What is the benefit of this over XDoclet tags? I find the XDoclet tags already in use _much_ easier to read and understand than these Any reason for supporting JSR-175 other than "its cool cause now the