> That pre-compilation step, though... How does that play with the IDE? It doesn't integrate with the IDE and I am not too fond of it either. But if you want

> That pre-compilation step, though... How does that play with the IDE? It doesn't integrate with the IDE and I am not too fond of it either. But if you want ORM as a library in Java, I don't think there is any other option possible. Java has no meta-programming support, and annotations are going to be processed at run-time which is even worse than pre-compilation.