I know this topic has come up in the past. I'm currently working on a set of Cassandra specific annotations that define key, keyspace and column in my POJO's.
Instead of hand rolling lots of boiler plate code for creating the keyspace, I prefer to annotate my POJO's and have the system do that for me. Right now it's part of a closed source project, but I'm willing to re-implement and contribute it to cassandra. Do others find the feature interesting? Should it be part of cassandra "out of the box"? If not a part of Cassandra, maybe part of hector? Currently I'm using hector client and contributed a few javadocs earlier this year. all feedback welcome. peter lin