[hibernate-dev] Hibernate 4 and the hibernate3.jar file in release bundle

[Adam Warski]

Hello,

> As far as I know, the only way to do what you suggest with Maven would be for 
> us to develop an archetype.  The problem with these imho is that you rarely 
> are developing a "hibernate application"; more usually you are developing a 
> "web application", within which you are using hibernate.  So you need to 
> decide up front which archetype you want to use.  Its just very inflexible.

What about a maven artifact (afaik gardle and ivy also use maven repositories for dependencies), which only contains dependencies to other hibernate modules (the ones that are before went into the uber-jar and are not transitive deps of the hibernate core artifact)?

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