moving from JPA standard annotations to pure hibernate annotations

[Mohit Sinha]

All,

We have a project wherein we use Hibernate as our ORM layer. We started using Annotations and got to know the Annotations we used were all JPA standard annotations. We want to change this to use pure Hibernate based Annotations.

Is this task just a change of fully qualified package names from javax.*.* to org.hibernate.*.*

Let me know your thoughts on the same.

Thanks,

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Mohit,
No. Hibernate Core and JPA use different method names to call the queries in the first place.

For example, em.createQuery vs session.createQuery

[Mohit Sinha]

Thanks Jeanne.
I am ok with respect to the DAO layer. My issue is with Hibernate POJO annotations. Annotations are the only piece using JPA and we are having core Hibernate ops for the rest.

-M

[Jaikiran Pai]

Mohit Sinha wrote:All,

We have a project wherein we use Hibernate as our ORM layer. We started using Annotations and got to know the Annotations we used were all JPA standard annotations. We want to change this to use pure Hibernate based Annotations.

Any reason why you want to do that? The JPA annotations are supported by Hibernate (and any other JPA implementations). So what's the need for changing those to Hibernate specific annotations (which no other ORM framework will understand).

[Mohit Sinha]

yes a bit weird. But we need to change it as client needs it that way

[Ulf Dittmer]

If the client pays for your company's expertise, advise them that they're probably doing the wrong thing.