I'm trying to understand how hbm2java works (So I can create some renderers of my own) and have become confused. Can somebody explain to me why ClassMapping.components is a static field. As nearly as I can tell, it seems to be handled like an instance variable, except that the field and its getter are static.

Thanks,

JWS

at the moment that is how hbm2java collect all the components that is referred by the classes....it could probably easily be changed to an instance variable and collected per class instead .... feel free to submit a patch for it if it bothers ya' ;)

I'm going to try to get more of a clue about the system first. But for the future, is there a guide on code conventions, who is working on what, etc. for people who are interested in working on hbm2java, or is the practice just to submit code and sort it out later?

Thanks,

JWS

yup ;)

for the hbm2java stuff i'm the main contributor and patcher if you wanna know for that part...

code guidelines is best read by reading the code and use the checkstyle guidelines that is in cvs...