[hibernate-dev] Redefining the API/SPI/implementation split

[Sanne Grinovero]

Ok that sounds like the best compromise. I'll adjust my open PR.
Thanks!

Sanne

On 8 December 2014 at 10:18, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:47:25AM +0100, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>> BTW, can’t you isolate those classes in a dedicated package still marked `impl` but have it exposed to OSGi?
>
> That was my suggestion as well. It is probably not the worst alternative. It moves the class out of the spi
> package and makes it an impl class (properly indicating that it is not to be used by anyone else).
> The downside is that we still need to expose this impl package via OSGi. However, since it would be a "dedicated"
> package just for this integration code, the impact would be minimal.
>
> Mind you, I still believe that we could address the whole issue in a much cleaner way as well.
>
> --Hardy