After reviewing Andy's proposal and the relevant page on JPOX website
I vote for:
2. Define a complete set of annotations - based on JPOX current work
And IMO, this should be a required feature.
Ilan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig L Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: JDO2 Annotations
> Javadogs,
>
> Please take a look at this proposal by Andy.
>
> High order bit: The expert group needs to make a decision whether to:
>
> 1. Not define any annotations, leaving it up to implementations to
> decide what to do
>
> 2. Define a complete set of annotations
>
> 3. Track JSR 220 and JSR 250 annotations for persistence and mapping
> and add only annotations for JDO that are not already covered by the
> other annotation specifications
>
> Orthogonal to the above, we need to decide whether support of
> annotations for implementations that support JDK 1.5 is required or
> optional.
>
> Craig
>
> On Jul 4, 2006, at 11:48 PM, Andy Jefferson wrote:
>
>>> For information, you can find an initial (top-level) set of
>>> suggested JDO2
>>> annotations at
>> http://jpox.cvs.sourceforge.net/jpox/JPOX/Plugins/Java5/src/java/
>> org/jpox/annotations/
>>
>> Since it's all quiet on annotations I'll provoke further :-)
>> The above link now shows an almost complete set of proposed JDO2
>> annotations
>> (I changed "PersistentField" to "Field" to match the metadata
>> element). The
>> advantages of matching annotations to metadata element are
>> obvious ... people
>> don't need to relearn the terms they already know from metadata.
>> The only
>> places where I haven't stuck to this are the top-level
>> PersistenceCapable,
>> PersistenceAware annotations (since they make more sense, to me)
>>
>> The only elements missing are Index, ForeignKey, Unique (i'll add
>> these soon),
>> Interface, Property (which are low interest for me) and the
>> recursive aspects
>> of FetchGroup and Embedded (which are restricted due to annotations
>> JDK1.5
>> design). Needless to say that these are all supported in the latest
>> JPOX
>> nightly builds where you could actually use them interchangeably
>> with your
>> metadata, or JPA annotations, or indeed your own set of annotations
>> if you
>> feel like it.
>>
>> Comments are welcome. Really.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andy
>
> Craig Russell
> Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
> 408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
