[news.eclipse.technology.ejb-orm] Re: correction: EJB3 is specified for

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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The above is doable in hibernate3 today.

> How would you solve that with EJB3?

with a initial report query and then only load the full objects
when required - i'm more for explicit querying, than implicit loading via  
object navigation (but that is
just a diffferent opinion/taste)

And in any way - send request enhancmenets with describtion of why to the  
ejb3 spec group: jsr-220-comments@xxxxxxx

> EObjectImpl.
> This is one of the intrusive design issues I don't like.
> Well, EObjectImpl gives you a superb meta-model in comparison to Java  
> reflection,
> out-of-the-box and DTD-conformant XML-serialization, super-flexible  
> change
> notification, validation, and probably lots of other nice stuff I forgot  
> right
> now. Just that you surely know what you don't like here ;)

I'm just saying that that stuff could be provided with much less intrusive  
means.

> Some things don't work with these features, e.g. support for array types  
> is not
> possible. Also EMF currently doesn't support generics, which is a pity.

A realy pity.

/max