For those who didn't notice, Steve recently started a 2.2 branch in CVS. He has started refactoring SessionImpl, as the first step of redesigning Hibernate to be more event oriented, as we all discussed a while ago. Steve's made good progress so far on this task that has been put off for much to long.
Today I checked in some major changes to the 2.2 branch that rework the engine so that we no longer pass Class objects around. Entities are now identified by a String name, rather than a Class.
The immediate benefit of this (but perhaps the leaat important one) is that Hibernate now supports a <dynamic-class> mapping. An entity may now be modelled as a Map of property values, instead of as a JavaBean. This means that Hibernate can now be used for the type of problems that we used to recommend OFBiz Entity Engine for.
Secondly, by implementing a new Interceptor method, it is possible to decide dynamically what "entity" a particulat instance belongs to. ie, we can map the same class to two different entity-names and handle different instances differently. eg.
<class name="Foo">....</class> <class name="Foo" entity-name="FooAuditLog">....</class>
Third, the Hibernate core metamodel may be used in tools which don't have access to the compiled persistent classes, eg. hbm2java and Hibern8IDE, which Max has wanted for a long time.
Finally, we will use this for implementing JBoss CMP.
Something in this for everyone, I think ;)
-- Gavin King JBoss Group +61 410534454 http://hibernate.org
------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
