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Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key

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On 09/08/11 07:26, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 11-08-08 07:11 AM, Lionel wrote:
> [ SNIP ]
>
>> I thought there might be more knowledge of hibernate on this forum, but
>> based on the responses it seems it is too specific for this forum. I
>> just wasn't getting responses to other questions on the Hibernate forum
>> (and neither were many other people though there are a high number of
>> posts) so I decided to try on my preferred medium :).
>>
>> Thanks everyone for your input.
>>
>> Lionel.
>
> It's one thing if you're not getting Hibernate-specific answers here;
> it's something else entirely if you (and a bunch of other folks) are not
> getting answers on Hibernate forums.
>
> A suggestion I have is to consider the use of JPA. If you're happy with
> Hibernate keep it as a JPA provider, but stick with the JPA 2
> specification, and use annotations. XML configuration files are better
> than straight text configuration files, by a long shot, but they are in
> turn inferior to annotations; JPA radically cuts down on XML.
>
> The advantage of sticking with JPA is that it's the overall Java
> persistence specification. You're no longer tied to a specific ORM.
> There's also likely more people and more forums that can answer JPA
> questions...including here. I stopped wasting my time with
> Hibernate/Toplink mapping XML as soon as JPA 1.0 appeared.

I had wondered about JPA as I was starting with Hibernate. But I'm 
hesitant to back-pedal as this is a project with limited funding.

I actually prefer the XML mapping approach, the annotations add a lot of 
noise to what can otherwise be a clean model. It may be personal 
preference but I like the separation.

Does JPA provide the same features as Hibernate? Can you easily 
configure any DBMS? Does it manage objects like Hibernate? Of course I'm 
about to do a little more of my own research right now but I would like 
to hear from someone who has actually used it.

> To return to my original point: tepid or no response on
> Hibernate-specific forums. Cause for concern, that.

Yeah, I'm not sure the exact reason, I will be trying again and paying 
very careful attention to the details of my post to make sure it is 
understandable.

Thanks

Lionel.

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  Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-07 18:03 +0200
  Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key Frank Langelage <frank@lafr.de> - 2011-08-07 18:45 +0200
    Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-07 19:14 +0200
      Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key Lionel <lionelv@none.com> - 2011-08-08 20:11 +1000
        Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-08-08 18:26 -0300
          Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key Lionel <lionelv@none.com> - 2011-08-09 18:56 +1000
            Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-08-09 21:45 -0300
        Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-10 09:58 -0700

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