Re: the pain of post processing bytecode (another beg for a simple reflection/cglib alternative like hibernate)

2007-05-21 Thread James.Strachan
Patrick Linskey-2 wrote: > >> How hard is it to add a reflection/cglib type alternative to the upfront >> bytecode generation (like hibernate does) to save us from the >> development-time pain? > > Not particularly hard. There are a few APIs that would break for some > cases, but it's even pr

Re: the pain of post processing bytecode (another beg for a simple reflection/cglib alternative like hibernate)

2007-05-21 Thread James.Strachan
djencks wrote: > > James, > > Could extract from this verbiage the scenarios you'd like supported? > The simplest scenario is, take any maven 2 project which is using hibernate. Switch the hibernate jars to openjpa jars & edit the bits of the persistence.xml that are required and have things

Re: the pain of post processing bytecode (another beg for a simple reflection/cglib alternative like hibernate)

2007-05-21 Thread James.Strachan
Marc Prud'hommeaux wrote: > > > I think this is a very worthwhile project. James and a few others > excoriated me about this issue over beers after JavaOne last week, > and, while the bruises from their rhetorical assault are still > healing, their observations about the comparative "out

the pain of post processing bytecode (another beg for a simple reflection/cglib alternative like hibernate)

2007-05-17 Thread James.Strachan
Firstly before I start, openjpa is a great piece of software; I'm particularly fond of the documentation and in particular the query language parts. The CSS for the site is also awesome :) However compared to hibernate, openjpa is still pretty painful to use from an end users perspective and I do