[hibernate-dev] Javassist dependency conflict in the ORM modules for WildFly

[Scott Marlow]

> Unless I am mistaken, Gunnar is suggesting that the Hibernate ORM module
(the WF module) export Javassist.  Not the application.
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I agree, that is what our WF pull request did, which I think is an
incremental improvement but that wasn't approved for the reason I gave.

>> Is the ORM testsuite building the WildFly app server from source?
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> Good god no :)
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>> Other option would be to use ByteBuddy to generate proxies instead of
>> Javassist to eliminate the application dependency on the Javassist
>> runtime classes.
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> Rafael Winterhalter is actually pretty far along on defining support for
Byte Buddy in Hibernate[1].  So that might soon be an option.
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> [1] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-11152
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+100 :)