[hibernate-dev] HibernateExt/metadata split

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
> > Here is what I'd like to do in the next 2 weeks.
> >
> > HibernateExt/annotations-commons
> > HibernateExt/annotations (old /metadata)
> > HibernateExt/entityManager (old /ejb)
> > HibernateExt/search
> > HibernateExt/validator
>
> what is annotations-commons ? Just commons ?
>
1. Discover Generics
2. Abstract Annotations so that orm.xml is seen as annotations by binders.
>
>
> > Alternatively, annotations and entityManager under a jpa directory
> > HibernateExt/annotations-commons
> > HibernateExt/jpa/annotations (old /metadata)
> > HibernateExt/jpa/entityManager (old /ejb)
> > HibernateExt/search
> > HibernateExt/validator
>
> Why the extra level ?
>
The rational was to have fewer top level directories and to put Java 
Persistence under a single umbrella, but I'm not tied to it.
>
>
> > or simply get rid of HibernateExt
> > annotations-commons
> > jpa/annotations (old /metadata)
> > jpa/entityManager (old /ejb)
> > search
> > validator
> > (tools)
>
> fine by me IFF (especially) hibernate core and the other modules
> could get some shared build stuff and/or proper dependency management
> so we don't repeat our self constantly in all those build files.
>
oh boy...
>
>
> > thoughts?
>
> I guess your most important immediate need is to have separated 
> search/validator from annotations
> and for that just doing the first split should be trivial since that is 
> what we can do today
> "painlessly"
>
> > If someone knows how to physically do that with SVN without loosing all 
> > the history, esp since we have trunk and branch_3_2 (main work 
> > currently)... I am all ears :-)
>
> svn copy your stuff to the correct places i assume.
>
> > PS: I thought about doing standalone distributions while keeping the 
> > same dev structure, but Hibernate Search is getting more complex with 
> > the master/slave mode and I need multiple src/test structures for it
>
> same as hibernate tools I assume; why does this prevent having the same 
> structure ?
>
HS will have to create .ear or .war plus to test it I'll need to use 
JBoss Embeddable... which depends on hibernate annotations if I keep 
./metadata as is, it's going to be clumsy
>
>
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