[hibernate-dev] [OGM] Neo4j integration dependencies

[Yoann Rodiere]

Is there any particular reason why we would not want to create three
artifacts, besides backward compatibility? It seems the obvious and ideal
solution, but I might be missing something.

If there is common code, we can always create a fourth -neo4j-core artifact
that would have no interest to users but would simply ensure we don't
duplicate code, and would be delivered through transitive dependencies.

About backward compatibility, I guess there are two options:

   - If the last released version of the artifact used to contain only the
   embedded mode, we can use maven relocation
   - Otherwise, we can advertise this artifact as deprecated, remove almost
   everything in it and add the relevant new artifacts as dependencies.

Or am I being too naive?

Yoann Rodière <yoann at hibernate.org>
Hibernate NoORM Team

On 19 October 2016 at 11:17, Davide D'Alto <davide at hibernate.org> wrote:

> The integration with Neo4j in OGM makes it possible for a user to
> select the strategy that he wants to use to connect to an embedded or
> remote Neo4j instance.
> There are 3 possible options:
> 1) Embedded mode, Neo4j run in the same JVM
> 2) Remote via HTTP interface using RestEasy
> 3) Remote via the Bolt protocol using the neo4j-java-driver library
>
> Everything is now in one single artifact meaning that for each case we
> have more dependencies than needed, in particular for the remote
> cases.
>
> Possible solutions I can think of at the moment are:
>
> 1) Have different maven artifacts:
>     - We could have 3 artifacts: EMBEDDED, HTTP and BOLT
>     - or 2 artifacts: EMBEDDED and REMOTE: This won't completely solve
> the issue because w would still have
>       resteasy (for HTTP) and neo4j-java-driver (for BOLT) but it
> might be a good trade-off
>
>     We will need to share some resource so this approach might require
> a Neo4j common library.
>
> 2) Make some dependencies optional (Need to test this, but it might work)
>
> 3) Use some maven plugin to generate different artifacts from the same
> module. I haven't used this approach before so I'm not sure if it is
> feasible.
>
> 4) ???
>
> Any opinion about this?
>
> Issue on JIRA: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/OGM-1190
>
> Thanks,
> Davide
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