[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Envers question

[Christian Beikov]

Hello!

I wondered how envers works/could work in a JPA portable way. Are you 
using somehow a entity listener approach or so? Does the the code needed 
for envers really depend on the hibernate core stuff or does hibernate 
just offer a more relaxed contract in respect to entity listeners?

I was just wondering why nobody proposed the auditing stuff to be 
included in the jpa spec since there were already many requests for 
auditing for other jpa impls. IMO it's a fairly common issue to address 
auditing and therefore worth to, not necessarily be standardized but, at 
least be provider independent.

I don't have a problem with hibernate at all, I will go on using it 
since it's just great, but the question just came up in my head and I 
wanted to know if you maybe already discussed something like that with 
the jpa team?

Regards,
Christian