Annotations have been more successful than XML

Annotations came to JDK with JDK5 (2004) since then they evaluated and are accepted so widely and even became more powerful and useful than XML in just 4 years.

While you are developing a project with java at any scale you’ll need a very large number of XML files defined in very different API’s and DTD/XSDs. Which makes configuration very complex.

eg:struts.xml,tiles.xml,validation.xml,hibernate.cfg.xml,spring-context.xml,web.xml,and so on

Although it is easy to read and modify there are lots files

Now with annotations:

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hibernate cache injection: missing…

currently hibernate version is 3.2.5 and there is still something basic missing: cache injection.

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hibernate native id generator bug 3.2.4-ga

hibenate native id generator for mysql not working just update to 3.2.5

Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: No value specified for parameter 11
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.fillSendPacket(PreparedStatement.java:2212)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:1724)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:1596)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:101)
at org.hibernate.id.IdentityGenerator$GetGeneratedKeysDelegate.executeAndExtract(IdentityGenerator.java:73)
at org.hibernate.id.insert.AbstractReturningDelegate.performInsert(AbstractReturningDelegate.java:33)

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