[hibernate-dev] AS7 use of the "hibernate.ejb.resource_scanner" property to override the default org.hibernate.ejb.packaging.Scanner...

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On 28 mars 2011, at 15:35, Scott Marlow wrote:

> On 03/28/2011 09:04 AM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>> 
>> On 27 mars 2011, at 19:36, Scott Marlow wrote:
>> 
>>> We just discussed Hibernate 4.0 annotation scanning the other day and I
>>> wanted to add to the conversation (which was about using
>>> https://github.com/jbossas/jandex).
>>> 
>>> As a workaround for https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-9141, I'll
>>> request a merge of the following change.  This is about AS7 setting the
>>> "hibernate.ejb.resource_scanner" property to
>>> org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate.HibernateAnnotationScanner (which implements
>>> the org.hibernate.ejb.packaging.Scanner interface).
>>> 
>>> If we move away from supporting the current Scanner interface in
>>> Hibernate 4.0, we should discuss the impact on the AS7 scanner
>>> implementation.
>> 
>> Why do you want to get rid of this interface, it captures exactly what HEM needs. Has it changed in 4?
> 
> I haven't heard anyone making a case to get rid of the Scanner interface.  My suggestion is to consider optimizing the interface to not require classloading of the entities.

Ah sorry I misunderstood you partially.
What's the issue with a Scanner implementation loading classes? In a sense, HEM calling getName() is a non optimized code path that should be fixed eventually.