I disagree. It is an ease-of-use feature. It is just soo much easier when everything
is in one place. cross-referencing between mappings and sourcecode is always a
pain, especially since my IDE can't help me. Note also that we reduce total LOC,
since more info can be inferred from the context of the annotation.
Actually, I always wanted something like this for Hibernate. I originally went with
XML metadata only with very strong reservations. I am an XML-sceptic - and I
know you are too Christian, so don't front ;)
Not to mention the fact that we do not have to rely on XDoclet and its Hibernate module, which is not guaranteed to be always up-to-date, anymore.
Ugo
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