[hibernate-dev] Integrator locator

[Adam Warski]

Did you think about using the java services mechanism? Essentialy placing a file in META-INF/services:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/sound/programmer_guide/chapter13.html
?

I don't think it gives any functionality, but is a standard way for doing such things.

Adam

On Mar 27, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote:

> HHH-5562 is done, which introduces a locator/discovery means for integrating 
> with Hibernate.  Specifically it introduces the (alternate name suggestions 
> welcome, i am indifferent to this one) org.hibernate.impl.Integrator 
> interface.
> 
> It does discovery based on a classpath lookup for a well-defined filename (can 
> discover multiple) which names an implementor of this interface.  The process 
> occurs in the midst of Sessionfactory building to account for the main use 
> cases I know of including Envers, Search, Validation and BV.  Currently I 
> additionally define those 4 as "built in" integrators, meaning there is no 
> need for them to define auto-discovery files unless we want them to be 
> integrated in that manner (I know for example that Search is interested in 
> this via HSEARCH-595).  Anyway, we should probably decide pretty early which 
> integrations we want done which way.
> 
> Actually I take one part back.  Envers is actually handed by discovery due to 
> the fact that it is in a separate project (jar).  The others were done this 
> way because they already had the reflection code in place to do this.  So for 
> it, we need to decide if we want to go the opposite way.
> 
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