[hibernate-dev] CGLIB

[Steve Ebersole]

I thought one of the issues was that cglib does not handle annotations?  That's a pretty big 'workaround' if that's the case.


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http://hibernate.orgOn May 11, 2010 1:06 PM, Strong Liu <stliu at redhat.com> wrote: 

these are the issues Steve mentioned below:



http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-4703

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPAPP-2971



to be fair, these issues can be workaround, and we already have patches, users who run into these issues can pick up our patch for cglib and rebuild it themselves.







On May 11, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Hardy Ferentschik 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.

>> 

> 

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