Does the hibernate team has any plan to update hbm2java for hibernate3? Actually it would be really nice to have a tool to generate annotated java for hibernate3 using hbm.xml files... Any chances to see that?

Hd.

We are building hbm2java for H3 actively at the moment with a beta available. Yes it is quite possible you will see annotation generation in the near future. First the annotations need to be finalised but we can work toward it before then. Don't ask when as there are other priorities at this point.

That sounds very exciting! In which package is hbm2java located? I searched for it and ended up hacking the previous version to work with hibernate3.

the new and improved hbm2java is the POJOExporter and accompanying javaclass.vm.

Its in hibernateext/tools/src/....

the "classic" hbm2java will be removed in the near future.

we will also provide a better integrated set of ant tasks (http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... se/HBX-112)

Hi Max,

Can you provide the link for the download? I could only find the hibernate extensions for Hibernate 2.x.

Thanks,
Hiber

tools.hibernate.org and it is under the downloads page too

http://www.hibernate.org/6.html

I can't find the extensions :-( The tool ZIP does not contain it.

huh ?

What is wrong with the hibernate tools alpha 1 link ?
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=141977

it works for me.

I can't find POJOExported and no hibernateext/tools/src/... either...


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the new and improved hbm2java is the POJOExporter and accompanying javaclass.vm.

Its in hibernateext/tools/src/....

what are you downloading ?

The download (at the link above) is the binary.

to get the src you need to get it from cvs under hibernateext.

And to prove that it is really there go look in viewcvs:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/h ... &view=auto

-max

Well, I was trying to use HibernateTool3 Alpha1 with Eclipse to generate my PKs are primtives like int or long instead of Integer.

I know you mentioned java type mapper, but I have not idea where to put the configuration param.

Can you help with more details?

oh ok ...that stuff we dont have exposed yet (besides in code)

The relevant code is in SqlToJavaTypesStrategy if you want to contribute/fix something more generic ;)

Is there a way to provide $ contribution toward the development / prioritization of certain features?

Personnally it would be nice to get a little bonus for contributing (but not necessary). I am not sure whats in place to facilitate this. Max might know.

I figured that since we are a now a successful business venture, accepting "donations" would not be appropriate. (The best way to support the development of Hibernate is of course to buy Hibernate support, or come along to a training. The money we make from this is plowed directly back into Hibernate development.)

This is fine as far as it goes - and it goes as far as those people who are employed by JBoss - but it doesn't really account for the people who are contributing voluntarily. I don't really know of a good model for somehow compensating those people, and I wish I could think of one. In the longer term, the model is that we actually hire people who make really significant contributions. But there's an unfairness in that because we have to bias our hiring towards people who are based where the business is (US, for example) and against places where there has so far been little business (Australia/Asia, for example).

It's an aspect of the model which I don't think we have nailed yet. Open source is a truly new thing, and we are still muddling through.

Almost certainly, in the timescale of 1-3 years, we'll see the same kind of enterprise-level adoption of JBoss products in risk-averse business cultures such as Australia that we see now in the US. But there is usually a lag with this kind of thing, and I guess JBoss needs to build out it's marketing and sales organization into APAC. (We have business in exactly those places where we have salespeople physically located, no surprises there.)

It's a tough one.