Hibernate Annotations with Hib. 3.1, but not Entity Beans

damonf · **Joined:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:57 pm **Posts:** 70

It is not clear (to us anyhow) if the new Annotations release (v. Beta 7 in Dec 2005) can be used without using Entity Beans.

That is, we want to keep our existing (pojo) persistence model which we have mapped using Hibernate 2.1.7, but want to use Java 5 metadata to drive the mappings.

I notice in particular that the tag used to mark something persistent is "@Entity" and am concerned that this mapping will not work if we are not "really" using entity beans.

Note that we use bidirectional one-many mappings, which I understand EJB 3.0 does not support.

snpesnpe · **Joined:** Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:49 pm **Posts:** 915

you can use hibernate in application server or standalone - it is same like before - Entity is only syntax from standard
hibernate 3.1 is much better and you try

emmanuel · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:09 am

Hi, EJB3 entities are POJOs, so when you're using Hibernate right now, you already do EJB3 entities ;-)
Hibernate Annotations does works in a standalone environment with or without an entity manager.
bidirectional one to many are supported in EJB3