Is it possible to use the new XML-Mapping-Features together with Annotations?! I don't have class-specific mapping files and I haven't yet found any XML specific annotations - are there plans to have annotations to specifiy node and embed-xml?

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stf

I must admit it's quite strange to use annotation for a non pojo domain model.
So no, this is not planned.

Then maybe I did not quite understand the use of the XML Mappings: My requirements is to serialize an object-tree that I persisted with hibernate to XML to ship it to some (non-java-) client-applications. Isn't this one of the intended use-cases for the XML Mappings?

This is exactly the same I would like to do. I also understood the xml mapping feature could to the trick. I'm still hoping someone could post some code snippet doing this things.

Regards,

There is an example of this in the docs

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... /#d0e10435

See 18.1.1. Specifying XML and class mapping together

This allows you to have both POJO and DOM4J XML mappings for the same entity.

As for merging the metadata for a .hbm.xml file and the anotations - I don't know if the hibernate Configuration supports that now - but it could certainly be written - are you volounteering ?

There is also sample code there about how to start a EntityMode.DOM4J session to extract the data in XML.

You can use a normal POJO session to create the POJO data in the database, and use a DOM4J session to extract it in xml.

My bad, I've not had a look at that for now, so it's currently unplanned.