[hibernate-dev] javax.money

[Steve Ebersole]

The improperness of optional dependencies is already well documented
elsewhere, so I won't get into that.

I just think the "cleanest" solution, given the situation, is a separate
module/artifact (hibernate-money) defining the types and contributor.  I
personally don't think this use-case "fits the mold" of a provided
dependency (on hibernate-core).

Of course then I ask myself about the practical aspect of using the
optional dependency approach versus a dedicated module for just a handful
of classes.


On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> > yes we could use an optional/provided dependency, but
> > that would not be "proper".
>
> That would actually be my preference; If the javax.money types are
> present, enable the required Types etc. otherwise not. It's a pattern
> we e.g. use in Validator, too, where we provide additional constraint
> validator types based on what's available in the runtime environment.
>
> Why do you consider it as not proper?
>
>
> 2015-12-22 17:03 GMT+01:00 Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>:
> > I had planned to support this JSR when I thought it would be part of the
> > JDK.  But as it is, supporting this properly would mean a whole new
> > module/artifact just to add these few types + the dependency (similar to
> > hibernate-java8).  I am not a fan of the fact that it would require a
> > separate dependency; yes we could use an optional/provided dependency,
> but
> > that would not be "proper".
> >
> > I am interested in what others think.
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 1:37 PM Petar Tahchiev <paranoiabla at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I've been playing lately with JSR 354 javax.money api (
> >> http://javamoney.java.net) and I was wondering if there's any plans for
> >> hibernate to support this.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
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