Hibernate version: 3

I want to build up a Hibernate session without any Hibernate Mappings. Basicly building the mappings in memory myself, rather than using mappings.

Is this possible and is there any guidelines available?

Thanks in advance.

possible yes, guidelines not reallyh but you can go look at HbmBinder in the core or the JDBCBinder in the tools

Thanks, I'll have a look at these two options.

Max,

I tried this, but it seems like a bad desicion to do whatever the hbmBinder is doing. Do you know of anything/tool, that would generate me mappings from java source, apart from Xdoclet?

Cheers

yes - ejb3 annotations ;)

we have a jira somewhere on extending the annotationsbinder to not be dependent on @Entity etc. but simply use the class names and generics information....but otherwise no.

Max,

Thanks for you help.

I have another question:

In a parent - child relationship, how crucial is it to hav a bidirectional relation ship?

If I'm unclear, let me know.

Thanks in advance.