Re: [Hibernate] writing the properties of a persistent object to a string

[Gavin K. <ga...@ap...>]

> 2. entities recursively printed.

Do you mean that

1. associated objects get automatically bound to the same document, or
2. their representation is nested inside the parent object?

If (1), thats probably a wothwhile idea.....it might even be worth
overloading the semantics of cascade="all" to automatically bind only
lifecycle objects. (This would save problems of binding the whole universe.)

If (2), that can be accomplished with a stylesheet, but its actually not
desirable since you don't know what to do with circular/shared references.

Anyway, I think you mean (1) ... which is cool