Re: DISCUSS remove @Field and @Property; add @Persistent

[Craig L Russell]

Hi Andy,

On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Andy Jefferson wrote:

Have I ever told you how much I *hate* using @Transient to describe
@NotPersistent? Transient is a serialization concept and I have no
trouble with a field that is both transient and persistent. That is,
not serialized but stored in the database. So calling something
@Transient is a big ugly blotch. Because if it's really transient,
you should mark it in the class as transient.

were added a longggg time ago.

So why not @NotPersistent ?

No. You never told me ;-) nor did anybody else object when those annotations

Thanks,

Craig

Sounds good. I'll take a closer look at using @Persistent and see if everything can be made consistent.

--
Andy  (Java Persistent Objects - http://www.jpox.org)

Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
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P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!

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