[hibernate-dev] HibernateExt/metadata split

[Emmanuel Bernard]

annotations-commons is needed by Search, Validator, Annotations and HEM, 
hence the split

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
> >> 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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