Re: [hibernate-dev] Using the standard JPA API artifact (Maven coordinates)

BTW I noticed that Steve had raised a problem about using these already: - https://javaee.groups.io/g/jpa-spec/message/25?p=Created,,posterid%3A3549... My proposal is simple: we could fairly assume that Hibernate should propose itself as default (valid) implementation. When people only have Hibernate ORM on the classpath we shouldn't mandate any explicit configuration of the JPA provider choice. Requiring an explicit flag when there's only one implementation would definitely be annoying for the majority of users so I strongly believe we should consider "ourselves" to be the default. I can see how someone might start whining that Hibernate shouldn't have booted without explicit authorization when "he meant" to use another implementation, but that doesn't sound reasonable to me. Thanks, Sanne On 21 August 2017 at 18:17, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: