[bv-dev] [BVAL-251] Improve Bean Validation support for modularized environments
On May 4, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Gunnar Morling wrote:
> Seems everyone is tired of OSGi? Maybe adding the OSGi header is
as far as we should go.
It has been a while since I've played around a bit with BVAL-251. I
still think some (standardized) OSGi support would be a good thing.
I've worked on the basic discovery (there are branches for the API [1]
and HV [2]) and I definitely would like to investigate the area a bit
more (would we need special message interpolators etc.), but since
then I just haven't found enough time to continue with the issue. I
hope I can continue with that within the next time. Maybe Kevin has
also some news on that.
I guess I am most concerned about the explicit dependency to org.osgi artifacts.
In this case I would prefer a separate activator jar (we discussed this before).
Question is, is it really the responsibility of the spec to provide such a thing.
Regarding the class loader service, this might be a good idea. I
think
we should see which specific use cases there are (which related
problems currently exist etc.) in order to come up with a solution.
I created https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/BVAL-286. I really think such a service
is beneficial outside the OSGi scope, but even there it is useful.
Atm I see two main use cases - loading classes and leading resource bundles
<T> Class<T> classForName(String className);
ResourceBundle loadBundle(String bundleName, Locale locale);
It would also be interesting to know how Apache Validation does
class
loading.
Anyone? I would be interested as well :-)
--Hardy