[hibernate-dev] CGLIB

[Steve Ebersole]

Afaik it simply a matter of what library you might already be using.  I have heard it or javassist do one thing better or faster, but I have not seen any evidence of that (nor have I tried to quantify).


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http://hibernate.orgOn May 11, 2010 9:34 AM, Hardy Ferentschik <hibernate at ferentschik.de> wrote: 

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.

>