Re: [Hibernate-devel] Volunteers?

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

>What feature do you mean exactly with "normalized table mappings"?
>Subcasses that map to diiffenent tables?

Yup. So you fetch the object using an outerjoin accross the table of the
superclass and the table of the subclass. This is the only remaining thing
thats bothering me about the core functionality.

>One thing that I would also propose for a todo is "alter table support"
>instead of drop / create table. I brought this up some time ago, but
>didnt implement it. I think i will take a look at this in the near future.

This would be very cool. How do you propose to implement it? Diffing two
"create table" statements? Diffing two mapping documents? Diffing against
JDBC metadata?

The other thing missing from the commandline toolset is a table schema ->
mapping document generator. If we had that, we would have full
roundtripping.

Eventually we still need to get round to making a GUI mapping file editor
that can call out to our commandline tools to do roundtripping. Its
actually not a very hard job. All thats needed is an editable tree
representing the mapping document - all the hard work is done by the
existing tools.

We've got a really active userbase now so I *know* these tools will be used
by people :)