[hibernate-dev] Using the standard JPA API artifact (Maven coordinates)

[Sanne Grinovero]

BTW I noticed that Steve had raised a problem about using these already:
 - https://javaee.groups.io/g/jpa-spec/message/25?p=Created,,posterid%3A354995,20,2,0,13596711

My proposal is simple: we could fairly assume that Hibernate should
propose itself as default (valid) implementation.

When people only have Hibernate ORM on the classpath we shouldn't
mandate any explicit configuration of the JPA provider choice.
Requiring an explicit flag when there's only one implementation would
definitely be annoying for the majority of users so I strongly believe
we should consider "ourselves" to be the default.

I can see how someone might start whining that Hibernate shouldn't
have booted without explicit authorization when "he meant" to use
another implementation, but that doesn't sound reasonable to me.

Thanks,
Sanne


On 21 August 2017 at 18:17, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
> It looks like that the JPA 2.2 spec produced an API jar which was
> uploaded to Maven central:
>  - https://github.com/javaee/jpa-spec/issues/60#issuecomment-323771666
>
> I hope we could use this standard artifact in future versions?
> Anything we need to watch for in terms of legal requirements, OSGi
> headers et al ?
>
> Thanks,
> Sanne