Is it the intention to be able to have pluggable entity-modes with hibernate - ie in addition to dynamic-map, dom4j and pojo?

We have a requirement to persist/load dynamic map-like objects (similar to SDO DataObject's) - and while we can use the dynamic-map entity mode, I am conscious of the overhead of copying between maps & our DataObjects...

Thanks.
-Nick

I'm not aware of that ability existing at the moment. However, if dynamic-map is close to what you want, you could use that, but write your own Tuplizers. There's a brief intro to them in the ref docs, section 4.5, there's a couple of articles in the wiki area, and of course, you can read the DynamicMapEntityTuplizer and DynamicMapComponentTuplizer source code.

Ultimately, from what I understand from what I have looked at, I dont think writing a tupelizer is enough.
There are a number of places I found in the code which is aware of the different tupelizer types (or at least what they work with: Map, Pojo, etc). SessionImpl, for instance.

It seems the that the best I could do is return a different Map type or perhaps populate the map differently. That might be close to what I want... I will have to see.

I was hoping to get an idea of what the future direction might be here from one of the developers...

-Nick