hi,

quite some time ago I was wondering the above mater and found I think in the jira a note by gavin king about developing the configuration api so that one could map a persistent class using the api, instead of xml or tags, which would be very very nice.

actually, this is what hibernate does at its core, but I've tried to mimic it and it ain't that easy now, there are also protected methods and so on.

is anyone working on this ? is it a still desired feature ? I must be aging, as I can no longer find it in the jira.

thanks for help

A lot of work is being done, sort of, in this area. One example is Max's new JDBCBinder. Very nice (currently experimental) approach that allows a table to be mapped without XML just using JDBC meta data alone. Obviously, its limited for general use but in the case of enhancing tool support it will be invaluable.

ok, but no one is building say a "PersistentClassConfiguration" object that one could pass to Configuration, am I rigth ? I would like to build one if:

- this is not in constrast with hib current development, so it would be wasted

- no one of the hib team is working on it

thanks

An other approach would be to create and/or manipulate the hbm.xml before you feed it to the Configuration.
A nice API could easily genereated with Castor.

HTH
Ernst

see

http://www.hibernate.org/244.html