I am running Hibernate 2.1.1. We have been using this for about 1 year. We recently (3-6 months ago) updated to 2.1. I know there is an update (2.1.2), but the change logs don't point to any differences as it related to my situation.

I would like to have hibernate check that the legnth of strings are no longer than the DB field before I commit to the DB. I thought that using the META tag at the file level would generate the necessary code. When running hbm2java, it does not generate any different code than normal, and exist without error. I have used "bound" and "constrained" here. I am looking for a propertyChangeListener to be generated. Here is an example:

<property ...>
<meta incident="bound">true</meta>
</property>

I have read that someone mentioned that meta in the DTDs is incorrect. Don't know if this the problem or I have an incorrect HBM syntax (the manual is not specific here).

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Kurt

Ignore the DTD issue - it was that hbm2java accepted meta tags in more locations than the DTD allowed.

Bound tells hbm2java to add propertyChangeListener support for a property.
This is a code generation attribute not runtime.

I should have read more further - Doh. I tend to use the Validatable interface.
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/html/persistent-classes.html#persistent-classes-s4