[Hibernate-devel] Design question

[Paul S. <pau...@ne...>]

Just a couple of questions about design decisions, if I may.

The first is about needing a *public* default constructor. In other 
places hibernate will access non-public methods (e.g. property get/set 
methods), so I was wondering if it was a concious decision NOT to do the 
same for the default constructor of a presistent capable class.

The other is the "marker" interface Persistent. I'm aware of reasons why 
you would / wouldn't want it, but wanted to hear from the team why it 
was chosen to go this way with Hibernate.

Regards, PaulS :)