[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Planning

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On  Mar 23, 2009, at 09:31, Steve Ebersole wrote:

> 1) If commons-annotations *does not* rely on hibernate-core in any way
> then I'm fine to break it it back out if that makes sense.  However
> y'all need to be *extremely* careful about this and making sure about
> compatibility.  The whole idea about moving these things back together
> was to make the compatibility "matrix" more manageable.  Making
> incompatible changes in dependency common to core/annotations/em and
> search effectively makes those things incompatible as well.  Same for
> integrating it into annotations.

Right but commons annotations should really be considered at the same  
level as slf4j.
All Hibernate projects do share slf4j but Search and Validator are  
independent of core (release wise and even to a certain extends at  
runtime).