between primitive and non-primitive identifier type

susilo_saja · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:32 am

Hi, I read this on Hibernate docs:

"We further recommend that you use a nullable (ie. non-primitive) type."

Why is that?

michael · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:17 am

Because you can easier distinguish between allready saved and newly created instances of an object.

susilo_saja · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:45 am

Thanks!

emmanuel · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:59 pm

I use primitive types when memory footprint matters, object otherwise

susilo_saja · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:47 am

emmanuel wrote:

I use primitive types when memory footprint matters, object otherwise

I don't really understand it, do you mean you use primitive types to save memory?

michael · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:41 am

Thats what is meant, yes