[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HV-570) Provide an hibernate validator OSGI service exporter

[ https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HV-570?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin... ] Gunnar Morling commented on HV-570: ----------------------------------- Maybe we could provide a solution based on either OSGi [Declarative Services|http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2009/05/12/osgi-declarative-servi...] or [Blueprint Services|http://aries.apache.org/documentation/tutorials/blueprinthellowo...]. AFAIK both are standardized approaches for exporting (and consuming) OSGi services in a declarative manner (I'm not sure though, which one is preferrable), and we would avoid the dependency to Spring that way. I think exposing the default {{Validator}} and {{ValidatorFactory}} as OSGi services that way shouldn't be difficult. The other question is how to handle resources provided by the user on the class path (message bundles, but also XML based constraint mapping files). I'm not sure what the best/recommended way for that would be. If we decide to provide something independently from BVAL-251 we should mark it as experimental as recently discussed, as I guess BVAL-251 might change things later on. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira