[hibernate-dev] Require OSGi 4.3 for ORM?

[Steve Ebersole]

Definitely should be targetting 4.3 imho
On Mar 19, 2013 10:09 AM, "Brett Meyer" <brmeyer at redhat.com> wrote:

> During initial discussions about ORM in OSGi [1], we had targeted OSGi
> 4.2.  However, in order to completely handle bundle scanning [2], we need
> an API that was not introduced until OSGi 4.3 (BundleWiring).  There's
> nothing like it in 4.2 and it's not easily/reliably replaced.  Although I
> believe 4.2 is still used in the community, most containers/runtimes
> (including JBoss OSGi) now support 4.3 and (very soon) 5.0.
>
> We're obviously not interested in branching hibernate-osgi to support
> multiple OSGi versions.  Although 4.2 is still used, should we require 4.3?
>  Without the ability to exhaustively and reliably scan the bundles for
> resources, our capabilities are limited anyway.  Further, if a user still
> requires 4.2, they can always wrap Hibernate as an OSGi bundle in any of
> the legacy methods.
>
> [1] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-7527
> [2] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-7993
>
> Brett Meyer
> Red Hat Software Engineer, Hibernate
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