[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HB-382) Make Hibernate Friendlier for use of Proxies and Enhanced Classes

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        Key: HB-382
    Summary: Make Hibernate Friendlier for use of Proxies and Enhanced Classes
       Type: New Feature

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Major

    Project: Hibernate2
   Versions:
             2.1 final

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: James House

    Created: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 4:29 PM
    Updated: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 4:29 PM

Description:
Hibernate could become friendly to applications that make use of proxies and byte-code enchanced classes in their object models.

To do so, only a couple simple new features are needed:


1) Add a construct (new method) to Configuration that lets you relate one class's mappings to another (i.e. tell Hibernate that: if you ever have to persist this class, act as if it is this other class that you already have mappings for).  - This will serve to tell Hibernate that the enhanced class (who's class name is only known at run-time) should be persisted using the mappings of the original class.  Note that in this case, the enhanced class only has changed behavior - no new properties.


2) Add a construct to relate a "factory" to a class's mappings, from which Hibernate should produce new instances of that class during load() operations.  - This will server to tell Hibernate that it should create a new instance of a class (during load()) using the given factory, rather than using the default constructor.  This way Hibernate can produce enhanced or proxied or even just sub-classes of objects without being aware of it.   This feature would also be useful to other people, who simply need the object to be created a special way.


I'd be happy to donate this work if it would be accepted - just let me know (either as a comment to this issue, or via e-mail) that it will be worth my time to do the work.

james




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