Re: [hibernate-dev] Clarification of Attribute/Value bindings

2011-05-20 Thread Hardy Ferentschik
On Fri, 20 May 2011 03:18:54 +0200, Steve Ebersole wrote: > Also, I do not like the terms "value binding" and "attribute binding", > at all. You are mixing terms from different concepts. It is confusing. > I much prefer AttributeBinding and VirtualAttributeBinding or > something similar tha

Re: [hibernate-dev] Clarification of Attribute/Value bindings

2011-05-19 Thread Steve Ebersole
Well there are 2 orthogonal distinctions here. 1) Physical versus virtual attributes: some values in the relational model correspond to attributes physically defined on the domain model, some do not. 2) Then there is the question of cardinality of the value (one column or multiple). In genera

[hibernate-dev] Clarification of Attribute/Value bindings

2011-05-19 Thread Gail Badner
In the new metamodel code, it appears that both "Attribute" and "Value" bindings are modelled using AttributeBinding. The places I've seen references to "Value" bindings (EntityIdentifier, Discriminator) don't necessarily have a domain representation. I'm working on @IdClass, and this an exampl