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

[Craig L Russell]

Well, member didn't show up as a thesaurus entry, but I like it.





Craig

On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Michael Bouschen wrote:

Member does have a meaning in Java but I think the meaning is consistent enough with "field or property" to consider. It also means "or inner class" but I don' think that's a negative. We could also use @Persistent as the annotation but use member and members as elements. I'll try some sample code and see what looks good.

Hi,




How about @Member?

Regards Michael

I agree @NotPersistent is better than @Transient. The term serialization is already occupied by serialization and both concepts (serialization and persistence) are orthogonal. Are we still looking for a name for a new annotation replacing both @Field or @Property or did @Persistent win the race?

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

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.

trouble with a field that is both transient and persistent. That is,

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.

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