[Hibernate-devel] Lifecycle Objects

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

I have finished the lifecycle objects feature (finally!) which I suspect a
lot of people will be very happy about. I'm looking for a bit of input on
details:

Basically, at the moment, you can do things like:

<many-to-one name="child" cascade="all"/>

<set role="children" cascade="all"/>
  <key column="parent_id"
  <one-to-many class="ChildClass"/>
</set>

to force associated objects to be saved/deleted/updated along with the
parent object. This should save a lot of application code.

I was wondering:

(a) is 'dependant' better than 'cascade'
(b) would it be useful to support cascade="save", cascade="delete", cascade
="update" along with cascade="all", cascade="none"?

I can't really see any great use to the extra stuff in (b).

In other news, I decided to deprecate Session.create(). Does anyone have
any objections to this?

I am now working on documentation / tests / examples .... no new features
for now.

Gavin.