[hibernate-dev] How best to eliminate the Javassist dependency from Hibernate applications...

[Scott Marlow]

As modular classloading environments become more popular (e.g. WildFly, 
OSGi, Openjdk Jigsaw), it is more important that applications can 
include their own version of Javassist classes.  This is not possible if 
the application classpath also needs to include the Hibernate (needed) 
version of Javassist.

My question is how would/should this be accomplished?  Some proposals 
are below:

1.  Clone the Javassist runtime classes into Hibernate ORM and maintain 
them as a fork.  I don't think this is practical but still wanted to 
mention it as a possible solution.

2.  Stop using the parts of the Javassist api that generate bytecode 
that depends on the Javassist runtime classes.  I have no idea how hard 
this would be.

I don't think we have a jira for this yet, although we have talked about 
it occasionally for years.

Any volunteers to help?

Scott