On 18 Jan 2012, at 7:30 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
2) The way this is currently implemented, using JPA now has a
dependency
on the CDI API being available on the classpath. We need to decide if
that is unreasonable. The other option is to handle it like we do for
BeanValidation and use messy reflection to isolate the dependency.
I am not a big fan of the hard dependency to CDI. If there is no other option I think we
should
go for the reflection approach. I don't think it is too messy. Pretty straight forward
imo.
--Hardy