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Hibernate version:

3.3.1 Annotations

Mapping documents:

@Any, @AnyMetaDef.java, @AnyMetaDefs.java

These annotations can be used to map a generic type to a database entity right?

The source code here for convenience:

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernat ... ToAny.java
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernat ... s/Any.java

Says

* This kind of mapping should be only marginal.

Is this slow? It would really help out my domain model to use this tag, but I am wondering what the negitive implications of this Annotations is?

What are the implications of heavy use of this tag?

Thanks

Kal

Heavy use of this feature is not recommended. It forces Hibernate to do a subsequent select rather than a join.
It also show that your database design is somewhat flawed :)