Geert Bevin [17/Mar/07 08:23 PM] Hmmm this means however that all the bytecode of all the classes need to be analyzed for the presence of this annotation. This would make the loading time of classes very slow. You can get the same behavior by just creating the ClassNameMetaData class and merely extend com.some.MyMetaData without any other implementation. I actually think that is much cleaner and allows you to do the same things. What do you think?

Maxim Grigoriev [17/Mar/07 10:45 PM] I don't think that it will take much time in production to parse all classes to find right classes. Also i want to have clean package structure where MetaData classes are stored in another package but not in the same package with persistent beans. But i don't think it's critical issue anth the best way to have 2 options - old one and annotation.