Hi,
We are working on project where client side is a Swing application and server side will use JBoss. We will use RMI/Swing Remoting for remote calls. We really liked the idea of using POJO persistence with Hibernate and annotations. Now the problem we are facing is to use those POJOs on the client side in Swing, because of its dependency on JPA implementation in Hibernate.

Any ideas how can we can use JPA annotations in POJOs and simultaneously use them on the client side also? Or we will have to use Hibernate mapping files?

Thanks & Regards,

JS

Hi,

there is no problem adding Hibernate annotations to your POJOs. Of course you would have to include the annotations jar to the client application as well. There is no problem with this. You only get problems if your client have to run on a JVM where annotations are not available (speak JVM < 1.5). In this case you will have to use mapping files.

--Hardy