Hi Erik,
You are right that without the Implements annotation / element, a few more
interfaces will have to be loaded by the implementation (at least during
enhancement), but is it really an issue? By the way, with
'persistence-capable-superclass' you could also avoid loading the non
persistence capable super class going directly to the first persistence
capable super class.
However, because duplication in development is very bad, and the extra
processing time is negligible - I suggest to deprecate Implements.
Craig, should I update the JIRA?
Ilan
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From: "Erik Bengtson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ilan Kirsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: 'Implements' annotation and XML element
I mean in super pc you have a 1-1 association, and by the moment you need
to know the super pc class, you have already loaded the pc class, while
implements has a 1-N, where N is not a fixed number
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Erik Bengtson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:53:12
To:"Ilan Kirsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'Implements' annotation and XML element
I think the utility is go cases where classes have not been loaded.
Example: schema creation does not need to load all pc classes to discover
which ones implements the interface, but only those declared.
While super pc class is used for discovery in bottom-up(child pc->super),
implements is top-down (interface->classes)
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From: Ilan Kirsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:17:42
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Subject: Fw: 'Implements' annotation and XML element
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilan Kirsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 1:15 AM
Subject: 'Implements' annotation and XML element
Hi,
The 'Implements' annotation (and the equivalent XML element) remind me
the 'persistence-capable-superclass' XML attribute that is deprecated now.
If persistence capable interfaces are marked as such by annotations
(or in the XML metadata), why should we have this duplication?
Implementations should be able to find implemented persistence capable
interfaces as they find a super persistence capable class.
Ilan Kirsh
ObjectDB Software
http://www.objectdb.com
