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I'm trying to avoid mapping files and I have a requirement that we not use the EJB container.

Do annotations exist for Hibernate which don't require EJB? I read the Hibernate annotations doc and it appears to rely heavily on EJB entities (e.g. @Entity). Does one need the EJB container to use @Entity? I have also used the EJB3/JPA annotations pretty extensively in Seam. The following line seems to indicate that you can do this but the doc doesn't speak to it:



http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annotations/reference/en/html_single/#d0e33

Thanks for the advice

Hello monkeyden,
I use EJB annotations without container. Hibernate work properly.

Hi Pasha,
Thanks a lot for the response. Any differences in the usage or is it the same?

Thanks

About usage read "Hibernate Annotations Reference Guide" from annotations package;
some additional libs must be present in classpath and session factory created in another way:
sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().buildSessionFactory();