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Friday April 28, 2006

Hibernate plugin in NetBeans 5.5

I've started to migrate features from hibernate plugin based on xdoclet to javax.persistence (EJB30) annotations. Working with annotations is simpler that working with xdoclet tags. It is necessary to run post processing tool for sources with xdoclet tags and to generate xml descriptors. The annotations are stored do classes. Therefore there is no need to generate xml meta data. The EJB30 is standard. It is another reason why to use them because you are not depenedend on only one implementation. You can simply move to other vendors.

I added templates for POJO with @Entity annotations. Screenshot with code completion is shown bellow.

The ui of customizer is the same like for xdoclet customizer. Only different code is generated. For example wizard for creating 1-N relation is shown bellow.

I plan also migrate the HQL wizard to EJB30 stuff. I may be add another hibernate features to NetBeans 5.5 ( Hibernate Validator and Hibernate Lucene Integration. I looked also on JBoss Seam. It is interesting technology. Has anyone experience with it?