Antonio Gallardo wrote:
Not sure is there can be a usecase where you will not need to store a
value in the DB. But, let assume the special usecase exists, then the
additional index should be "optional" and not obligatory as is now in
hibernate. ;-)
It is obligatory for mapping a List. You can map your collection as Set
and do not need index then.
I also noted [0]: "The index of an array or list is always of type
integer."
Again: this is the context of List mapping.
Again, this is a non-sense: Obligatory index + obligatory index type!
Of course, this does not cover cases where the user prefer to use
another index type, for example a string or a char or whatever other
type the user want to use. This is another reason to choose Apache OJB
[1]. The worse is that instead of offer a solution in hibernate 3, they
offer just "a cool justification" why this non-sense [0]. I really
wonder how is people using hibernate after all. The only answer I found
is "they must have an excelent marketing engine a la
${readerPreferedCorporate.getName()}". ;-)
There is completely no problem to use another index type but this is not
List then. How would you like to index your list with non integers when
java.util.List is indexed with integers only?
For your usecase you should map your collection as java.util.Map.
I am doing hibernate almost 2 years now and haven't found a single
usecase where I would have to adjust my database schema just because I'm
using hibernate.
I am sure both OJB and Hibernate would do just fine for 99% cases. We
could bring up a lot of arguments and the other side could probably
easily turn them down. Let's maybe do it like this: You create a
database schema which you map to OJB and I will provide hibernate
mappings. Then I will challenge you :) We can put results on wiki so our
users see that both O/R techniques are feasible for single database
schema. WDYT?
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