Hi,

I'm trying to use hibernate 3 with annotation but without EJB.
Is it possible ? I can't figure out if it is or not possible.

To be really clear : I would like to use hibernate3 framework with the help of annotation instead of xml configuration files. I don't want to use any application server nor any EJB classes like sessionbean or entitybean.

I understand that it could be possible but on the other hands, annotation definition are in ejb3.jar.
I'm a little bit disapointed.

In fact, whatever the answer is, I would like to understand why ...

Thank you for your help !

ejb3.jar defines the annotations. So you use the same annotations as you would use in EJB 3.0 to specify an entity Bean.

"Hibernate Annotations" reads this annotations and prepares this meta data for the "normal" hibernate api.

"Hibernate Annotations" doesn't need an application server. Only the ejb3.jar as annotation library.

OK, but when does it take annotation into account without EJB then ?
Is it when I add classes into the config :


I would like to understand when that step is run.

Does it produce an xml mapping file ? If yes, where can I find the file ?
Or maybe it is a xml memory stream ?

Any light apreciated !

The AnnotationConfiguration uses its own binder mechanism to generate the metamodel Hibernate uses internal to configure itself (the hbm binder does the same thing given xml files). No, there is no intermediary "xml step".

Also, as this *is* open source, its easy enough to see for yourself exactly what is going on and when. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/hibernate/HibernateExt/metadata/src/java/org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationConfiguration.java?rev=1.15&view=auto

Thanks a lot.

You right, lets explore the source !