That's how Bitronix Transaction Manager managed optional dependencies as
well.
In its case cglib and javassist were optional dependencies and at runtime
the framework decided whether to load one provider or the other.
Vlad
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org>
wrote:
On 22 December 2015 at 17:34, Gunnar Morling
<gunnar(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
>> yes we could use an optional/provided dependency, but
>> that would not be "proper".
>
> That would actually be my preference; If the javax.money types are
> present, enable the required Types etc. otherwise not. It's a pattern
> we e.g. use in Validator, too, where we provide additional constraint
> validator types based on what's available in the runtime environment.
+1
> Why do you consider it as not proper?
Same question for me. It might not be perfectly well defined in terms
of Maven dependencies, still I think the practical benefit for users
far outweights the cons.. if that's what you're referring to.
Sanne
>
>
> 2015-12-22 17:03 GMT+01:00 Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org>:
>> I had planned to support this JSR when I thought it would be part of the
>> JDK. But as it is, supporting this properly would mean a whole new
>> module/artifact just to add these few types + the dependency (similar to
>> hibernate-java8). I am not a fan of the fact that it would require a
>> separate dependency; yes we could use an optional/provided dependency,
but
>> that would not be "proper".
>>
>> I am interested in what others think.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 1:37 PM Petar Tahchiev <paranoiabla(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I've been playing lately with JSR 354 javax.money api (
>>>
http://javamoney.java.net) and I was wondering if there's any plans
for
>>> hibernate to support this.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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