[hibernate-dev] AS7 use of the "hibernate.ejb.resource_scanner" property to override the default org.hibernate.ejb.packaging.Scanner...

[Scott Marlow]

On 03/28/2011 09:04 AM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>
> On 27 mars 2011, at 19:36, Scott Marlow wrote:
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>> We just discussed Hibernate 4.0 annotation scanning the other day and I
>> wanted to add to the conversation (which was about using
>> https://github.com/jbossas/jandex).
>>
>> As a workaround for https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-9141, I'll
>> request a merge of the following change.  This is about AS7 setting the
>> "hibernate.ejb.resource_scanner" property to
>> org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate.HibernateAnnotationScanner (which implements
>> the org.hibernate.ejb.packaging.Scanner interface).
>>
>> If we move away from supporting the current Scanner interface in
>> Hibernate 4.0, we should discuss the impact on the AS7 scanner
>> implementation.
>
> Why do you want to get rid of this interface, it captures exactly what HEM needs. Has it changed in 4?

I haven't heard anyone making a case to get rid of the Scanner 
interface.  My suggestion is to consider optimizing the interface to not 
require classloading of the entities.