Re: [Hibernate-devel] XML SessionFactory configuration

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

I expressed this badly, of course. I was meaning to imply no hooks into
the system initialization procedure as opposed to hooks into the
component _instance_ initialization procedure. You want to configure
a single session factory thats shared between potentially many instances
of several components (whether these components be servlets or enterprise
beans). I think its reasonable to try and make that a bit easier for
people.

P.S. Does anyone here use Avalon. I've been having a look at their stuff
lately and kind of like it and I'm wondering about writing an adapter that
exposes hibernate as an Avalon component. But I've never used Avalon so
I would probably not get it right on my own......

> While I don't necessarily think this is a bad idea, I'm not sure I
> quite understand why you say a J2EE app has no control over
> initialization. What particular app model(s) did you have in mind here?
> WAR's for servlet engines? EJB apps? other server side models?