[hibernate-dev] To identify the version of Hibernate ORM at runtime

[Steve Ebersole]

Hmm, I had used to set the set the Specification-* entries too, but it
looks like those are no longer there :(

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:

> > Or we could improve on those methods, if not actually adding some easy
> to consume resource in the orm jars.
>
> Doesn't such resource already exist, in the form of META-INF/MANIFEST.MF ->
> key "Implementation-Version"?
>
> Based on that you should be able to raise a meaningful error if the ORM
> version is "too old". It doesn't help with incompatible future ORM
> versions, but it should improve the experience in some cases.
>
> 2015-03-02 14:40 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:
>
> > All,
> > it looks like people get easily confused by which version of ORM is
> > compatible with - for example - Hibernate Search.
> >
> > The expected versions are documented plenty, in readme, project
> > sources, documentation and we even remind about the expectations
> > frequently in blog posts.
> >
> > Wondering if it would be more effective to have some marker in ORM, to
> > validate at least for most critical known incompatibilities at
> > runtime?
> >
> > I realize there is no 100% foolproof in any possible solution, but
> > providing a nice error message to 90% of these cases could be helpful
> > to a large population already, and doesn't seem too complex for us to
> > do.
> >
> > I guess it could be simple enough to use the existing
> > org.hibernate.Version ?
> > Or we could improve on those methods, if not actually adding some easy
> > to consume resource in the orm jars.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Sanne
> >
> >  - https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-1816
> >  -
> >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28736785/org-hibernate-impl-sessionimpl-cannot-be-cast-to-org-hibernate-engine-spi-sessio/28810837#28810837
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