Hi everybody!

I am currently trying different persistence frameworks. Hibernate seems very mature as well as powerfull.

Nevertheless, i am adopting a model driven approach, and as a result, the persistence layer won't be hand coded but rather generated, so i don't have the same constraints as other hibernate users.

Moreover, a service layer (actually a layer implementing business services) needs to access also the business objects through the persistenc e layer without having access to the business objects java classes at compile time.

Is it possible, using hibernate, to access persisted entities not using the real java class but using an API such as:

myEntity.load("Product", productID);
myEntity.getAttribute("Description");
myEntity.setAttribute("Price",15.76);

Many thanks for your ideas and help !

Best Regards,

/Jean-Baptiste

I think you might be interested in the other entity modes in Hibernate 3, which include DOM and HashMap representations. So, rather than:



You could have a dom tree like:



Or HashMap like:



More info In The Reference Documentation

Thanks a lot, it is definitely what i am looking for!

However, from the documentation, this feature is reported to be "experimental", does this mean that it won't be further developped? or is it "just" the first version?

Cheers,

/JBG

I think the hibernate team mean that it's a new feature, introduced in Hibernate 3, so they're not sure that the API is going to be the same, or that enough people are using it for it to be as bug-free as the rest of the code. I'm sure one of the actual team will have said something about this in some other post, so a quick forum search might net you some examples and more details,