Re: [Simple-support] Just started -- some questions

[Timo R. <cr...@ol...>]

Hello,

>> 2. Why are @Commit and @Persist and @Complete implemented as
>> annotations rather than defining a java interface?

just adding to what Niall already wrote: think about the developement
of JavaEE's EJB 2 specification to EJB version 3 - there were exactly
the same intentions to discard all those bean interfaces and switch to
annotations instead:

It is not a good practice to bring in a framework dependency into your
domain models (think about changing the persistance provider
implementation). Niall's decision to use annotaions is the best way,
in my opinion.


Best regards,
Timo