[hibernate-dev] Compatibility Considerations wiki

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On 25 Jan 2014, at 18:37, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> This is all certainly true.  I think specifically of things like
> persisters, which by "package break down" are currently considered API.
> 
> Also, as far as OSGi, I would suggest not worrying about that so much
> (Gunnar).  Keep in mind that even today this OSGi manifest info is
> generated by build logic.  Changing that build logic to look at annotations
> rather that parsing .class file path is not that big of a deal imo.
> Devil's-in-the-details of course, but in theory it should not be a big
> deal.

I agree that the generation of the OSGi metadata via annotation would not be such a big
problem, however, OSGi does afaik not allow to configure modules on a class level. The
fines granularity on what is exported is on package level. Just saying.

—Hardy

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