[Hibernate] Kudos, Exception question, Validatable...

2004-02-04 Thread David Wood
First of all, since picking up Hibernate on a project and using it for a month or two (and having used a few other similar systems), and having some occasions to hunt around in the source, I wanted to write just to say that I was impressed by the clarity, concision, and overall good experience

Re: [Hibernate] Kudos, Exception question, Validatable...

2004-02-05 Thread David Wood
> hmmmdon't know if it would be great to hold a reference to an object > in the exception...but maybe extend the message with information > (textual representation of the object) would probably be ok OK. So, add a toString() to the JDBCException's message. It's a good idea. I want to m

Re: [Hibernate] New subproject proposal: a batching, client/server JDBC layer

2004-06-14 Thread David Wood
I just did a swing client that uses hibernate, and although in my case I was alright to make the database available to the client hosts, I'm sure many can't. So it sounds like this will certainly be useful, but it has me thinking: will this layer be added only because nobody trusts the database

Re: [Hibernate] New subproject proposal: a batching, client/server JDBC layer

2004-06-14 Thread David Wood
lability purposes. > > I guess this argument against doing it at the JDBC level also applies > to doing it at the ORM level, since it still opens up the possibility of > arbitrary queries. > > > David Wood wrote: > > >I just did a swing client that uses hibernate, an

[Hibernate] one-to-many relationships, outer joins with "fetch" HQL, and redundant results.

2004-06-18 Thread David Wood
Outer join fetching has never been good to me. Hibernate always seemed to ignore my OJ configuration settings and metadata, at least for where it mattered for me (on collections). Eventually I discovered the correct language in HQL queries to "force" it to happen: "from Parent as p left join fe