[hibernate-dev] CGLIB

[Hardy Ferentschik]

Is there any advantage of CGLIB over javassist?

On Tue, 11 May 2010 16:24:12 +0200, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>  
wrote:

> I think the time has come to drop CGLIB support :(  It is just becoming
> near impossible to get them to respond to issues.  We even recently sent
> them 2 patches of major issues and still cannot get them to apply the
> changes upstream and cut releases.
>
> So that leaves us the choice of deprecating CGLIB support and eventually
> dropping it altogether or forking it.  I personally do not want to fork
> it, mainly because I do not want to have to maintain it.  Anyway lets
> discuss it this week if need be and we'll vote at the meeting monday.
>