Bytecode enhancement of any kind is only supported for annotated entities. I definitely would like to get into supporting XML metadata as well, although I doubt it would ever be done for HBM mappings.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:18 AM Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> wrote: > Hi, > > As per an answer of Vlad in the forum [1], the lazy fetch groups new in ORM > 5.1 are only supported via annotations. > > Is that a temporary solution and XML support for lazy groups is planned > eventually (if not in HBM but then via some means of extension point in > orm.xml)? > > In other words, is our strategy to keep annotations and XML (again, be it > HBM or through extensions in orm.xml) equally powerful? Or are we indeed > considering annotations as the "preferred way" and add new functionality > only there? > > Personally I'd hope for the former, as there are use cases for both and it > should be left to users which one to take. > > Taking a step back, it's not specifically XML I'm attached to, but *some > means* of external configuration of mappings as opposed to internal > configuration via annotations on the model itself. In the No-ORM projects > we provide APIs which allow to apply the same configuration as via > annotations for that purpose. Maybe that'd be a good thing for ORM, too? > > Thanks, > > --Gunnar > > [1] https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1043183 > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
