On 28 févr. 2012, at 17:59, Steve Ebersole wrote: > Another discrepancy between hbm.xml and annotations currently is the > definition of natural ids. hbm.xml only allows natural ids to be > defined on the root entity, annotations allow it to be defined on any > level of the hierarchy, even across classes. > > We need to decide what we want to support. 2 things to consider here are: > 1) whether we limit @NaturalId to only root entity meta (and maybe > @MappedSuperclass for root entities) > 2) if we do not limit, what @NaturalId spread across a hierarchy "means" > > In the second point, consider: > class A > @NaturalId > key1 > > class AA extends A > @NaturalId > key2 > > Personally I vote for limiting @NaturalId to the root entity. This > allows caching to work just like it does for identifiers.
I agree with you. _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
