[hibernate-dev] ServiceRegistries and OSGi

[Steve Ebersole]

Now that OSGi support is in place and we know it is being used, I am 
curious whether the concept of ServiceRegistry helped or hindered in 
that process?

One of the major reasons to define such a ServiceRegistry was the idea 
that it would help porting Hibernate into other containers and other 
runtimes, not just traditonal JSE/JEE environments. Specifically OSGi 
was one of the things considered, although in a very generic sense back 
then.  So part  of the reason I ask is that I wonder how successful we 
were in that, first; and then, in areas we can get better, how?

Now is a great time to review that as we get ready to start making a 
push towards 5.0 after 4.3 (JPA 2.1 support) gets stabilized...