[hibernate-dev] HibernateExt/metadata split

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

>> what is annotations-commons ? Just commons ?
>>
> 1. Discover Generics
> 2. Abstract Annotations so that orm.xml is seen as annotations by  
> binders.

mkaey...stupid question: why is it seperated out ?

>> 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.

i just like to have uniformity in build stuff, but not tied to that  
either...just don't like
it to repeated/different all over ;)

>>
>> > 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

ah that is the need for splitting annotations-commons...?

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