On 01/06/2009, at 6:46 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
There has been a discussion previously on whether properties and comments are the same thing or not. The consensus was that those are two different things. Comments are actually DB-related artifacts (and therefore won't probably be attached to any Obj* metadata objects, or relationships, etc.). Properties are arbitrary strings attached to any mapping object.
Jack is referring to 'comments' since a powerful use of the feature he has built is to use them to create things like javadocs with the velocity templates. This is not quite the same as Andrey's 'comments'.
I assumed you are working on the later feature (properties, not comments)? Also IIRC Andrey was looking at building comment support. Andrey please correct me if I'm wrong.
He was going to wait and see what Jack did here in case there was useful overlap. One approach could be to reserve a MapEntryProperty keyword 'db' for what Andrey needs. The UI in Cayenne modeler will work well in that way I think, but let's see when that is done what you and Andrey think about this.
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