Re: [hibernate-dev] Integrator locator

Did you think about using the java services mechanism? Essentialy placing a file in META-INF/services: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/sound/programmer_guide/ chapter13.html ? I don't think it gives any functionality, but is a standard way for doing such things. Adam On Mar 27, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote: > HHH-5562 is done, which introduces a locator/discovery means for > integrating with Hibernate. Specifically it introduces the (alternate > name suggestions welcome, i am indifferent to this one) > org.hibernate.impl.Integrator interface. > > It does discovery based on a classpath lookup for a well-defined filename > (can discover multiple) which names an implementor of this interface. > The process occurs in the midst of Sessionfactory building to account > for the main use cases I know of including Envers, Search, Validation > and BV. Currently I additionally define those 4 as "built in" > integrators, meaning there is no need for them to define auto-discovery > files unless we want them to be integrated in that manner (I know for > example that Search is interested in this via HSEARCH-595). Anyway, we > should probably decide pretty early which integrations we want done > which way. > > Actually I take one part back. Envers is actually handed by discovery > due to the fact that it is in a separate project (jar). The others were > done this way because they already had the reflection code in place to > do this. So for it, we need to decide if we want to go the opposite > way. > > > --- > Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; > http://hibernate.org > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev