Re: [Springframework-developer] Hibernate3 entity names, direct Session access

[Rod J. <ro...@in...>]

> Good point, the criteria should be how often they are likely to be used, not
> that they are new. Agreed on that. So, how often are they likely to be used?
> :-)
I think these new methods are potentially useful, and an important 
enhancement in Hibernate 3 which would allow advising Hibernate 
persistent objects etc.

So I would favour adding them.

> What's your opinion on direct Session access, Colin? The same option exists
> not only with JDO, but also with the forthcoming EJB3 EntityManager: All
> those could be accessed directly if one accepts the non-generic (but at
> least unchecked) data access exceptions getting thrown. Spring would
> essentially just provide DAO wiring and transaction management here, which
> some people might like: no wrapping of the perfectly good Hibernate (or JDO
> or EntityManager) API going on there ;-)
I think exception translation is very important to the value 
proposition. I don't think we should encourage raw session access. 
Exception translation is a very important value add.

R