Hi all,
Alex has written a blog entry and some proof-of-concept code around configuring iBATIS with Annotations. In his example he used the JCP Ease-of-Development syntax that's been dropped for JDK 6.0/JDBC 4.0.
Alex's example isn't ready for primetime yet, but have a look at what he's done, and le't start a discussion around annotations support in iBATIS.
http://www.jroller.com/page/alexRuiz
PS: I've been working on a similar proof, that uses conventions, annotations and XML to offer varying levels of simplicity and flexibility.
Cheers,
Clinton