[Hibernate-devel] What I've Been Doing, etc.

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

Just to let people know what I've been working on:

1. I've done a lot of work on the new "proxies" feature
- enabling arrays of proxies
- fixing a couple of little bugs
- integrating proxies into the existing test suite
2. Fixing a bug in the "deferred loading" feature

I'm not sure if anyone knows much about the deferred loading thing.
Basically, when executing a non-polymorphic query, hibernate holds
off on loading associated objects of the same class (ie. the class
returned by the query) just in case they are already in the query
result set. This was a very difficult feature to get working and
apparently I still didn't have it 100% right.

On a related subject, I think I should better document the
hibernate.use_outer_join feature which lets you load multiple
associated objects in one SELECT if your database supports
ANSI-style joins. I'm half tempted to enable this feature by
default for some databases by addding Dialect.hasOuterJoins().