Hello!

Is there a possibility to abreviate fully qualified class names used in the <class> and <subclass>-Tag?

I have for instance two packages:

org.openuss.group.specification.business.*
org.openuss.group.business.entity.*

The wildcard ("*") then is used to specify the concrete class name, i. e. "org.openuss.group.specification.busniess.MyClass".

Now I'd like to have the packages mentioned above somehow "imported" or I'd like to use a variable in which I can store the package name, so that I can shorten the name to something like this: "variable.MyClass".

Does their exist a solution?

Best thanks in advance!

Philipp Hinnah

Take a look at 5.1.16 import from
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/html/or-mapping.html
This might help, depending on exactly what you want.

No, this is not possible. We *could* introduce a <package> element, I suppose. Would this be popular?

Thanks for the fast help!
In my opinion a <package> element might reduce paperwork and it also makes the code more clear.

Philipp Hinnah

Yeah, actually I never liked all the fully qualified classnames, for a long time. But no-one ever asked for that to be changed before and it *does* help if you use auto-refactoring tools.

But I think it might be nice to just add a package attribute to <hibernate-mapping> that would apply to any unqualified classnames.