RE: [Hibernate-devel] SQL Server 2000 questions

[Gavin_King/Cirrus%<CI...@ci...>]

> gavin, if hibernate is sticking with the one distribution (classes and
> source together) then i think the user should be able change the code
> and rebuild the distribution easily.    to achieve this the ant script
> should be included and possibly the libs.  if u wanted to tidy this
> aspect of the project up using ant as the one build tool, i can
> certainly give u a hand.  also, the java source is currently included in
> the jar.

building distributions is a hassle for me at the moment. Any help would be
very appreciated. And your suggestions are quite correct, of course.

> i agree that writing bean-style property methods is tedious, but it is a
> task than can be fairly easily automated.

Im using eclipse so its trivial. I really like the whole idea of decoupling
the persistent representation from the internal implementation. But I guess
its a matter of preference, so since theres no difficulty implemention
instance variable access, why not allow it?