On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Steve Ebersole
<steve.ebersole_at_redhat.com>wrote:
> +1
>
+100000
> For what its worth, we have this in Hibernate and users have been
> extremely positive abouts its inclusion. Specifically, we allow them to
> annotate the natural id attribute(s) and then use them to perform entity
> loading (through an alternate API). http://docs.jboss.org/**
> hibernate/orm/4.1/devguide/en-**US/html_single/#d5e850<http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.1/devguide/en-US/html_single/#d5e850>
>
> Not sure whether there is time to slip it into 2.1, but I think it is a
> great feature.
We ordinary JPA users feel the same way. :-) This would be a REALLY
welcome addition.
Best,
Laird
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