> On 19 Jul 2015, at 16:53, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote: > > What I propose is that we change this. I am kind of torn as to the default > tbh. I think JPA's default of ORDINAL is the wrong choice. I think NAMED > is the better choice. Well technically I think an independent mapping code > it best. But strictly between ORDINAL/NAMED, I think NAMED is better. So > if everyone agrees that we change this to definitively determine the enum > mapping up front, which style do we choose as the default. Obviously the > big argument for choosing ORDINAL is consistency with annotations.
Even if like you I prefer NAMED over ORDINAL, I would prefer consistency with annotations. If you feel strongly on the subject, I think the other way is fine too since: * the recommendation is to be explicit * hbm is already quite a different beast than annotations/orm.xml _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
