[Hibernate-devel] Feature thoughts

[Peter A. <d9...@na...>]

Hi,

I've tried the latest hibernate. Works great! I'm not sure what you
think, but I have two thoughts about features I'd like to see in an
OR mapping tool.

1. Be able to prefetch a set of relations. IE when I have a
customer which has an adress and a set of orders, I would like at
querytime be able to tell the tool to fetch all theese with one
query (with joins). As I understand it currently I can tell in the
mapping file that adress is a dependant object, but the problem is
that then adress always gets loaded from the db when customer is. I
rather would see that there was a way to specify this at query time.

2. Related to 1, it would also be nice if the sort-order of a
collection could be specified at runtime in some way. So if I've
already queried for a customer and call getOrders on it I would like
to be able to choose how the orders are sorted when fetched. This at
runtime too because I might want them sorted differently on different
occations.

Not sure if this makes sense in hibernate, but anyway it's my
thoughts :)

/Peter