Hello; the comments for (spec-breaking) bug ANN-267 indicate that despite the fact it deviates from the JPA specification it will not be fixed until the specification is made concrete.

Now that the specification has been concrete for several years, is there a chance that this bug could be fixed, since without such a fix a JPA-compliant project cannot be deployed using Hibernate as the provider?

Thanks,
Laird

{crickets}

O...K....

How's about this: since apparently one can work around this spec-breaking bug by placing @AttributeOverrides on the entity class, but because I don't want to change my entire domain model to work around one Hibernate bug, can someone tell me if there is a way to do the equivalent of an @AttributeOverrides using hbm.xml files?

That is:

If I have an annotated class, and I want to supply attribute overrides but in a Hibernate-specific XML file somewhere in such a way that bug 267 can be worked around, what is the best way to do it?

Will Hibernate mix and match annotations and hbm.xml files in the same way as it is required to do with annotations and META-INF/orm.xml?

Thanks,
Laird