[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HHH-6339) Get rid of system-level configuration properties, make all properties session factory scoped

[Leonid Kosmylev (JIRA)]

Get rid of system-level configuration properties, make all properties session factory scoped
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                 Key: HHH-6339
                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6339
             Project: Hibernate Core
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 3.6.0
            Reporter: Leonid Kosmylev


Some of the configuration properties are system-level properties. This fact is documented for example here: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.3/reference/en/html/session-configuration.html

It would be a great improvement if these properties become session factory scoped instead of system-level. I actually think the current behavior is pretty much a bug.

Reason? Some creative people decided to use Hibernate as the JPA implementation in their JEE offering. The very same people made it damn impossible to deploy a copy of hibernate as part of a JEE application. It means that now *all* JEE applications deployed in that server *share* Hibernate classes *and* system-level properties. There are situations when the applications need to specify different values for system-level properties. Ooops, it can't be done.

I do not know if it is possible to get rid of all system-level properties. One that I really would like to see session scoped is 'hibernate.jdbc.use_streams_for_binary'. There is also a closed bug http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HB-646 which I unfortunately cannot reopen. There is no reason to keep this property system-level. 

Documentation? Document the new behavior and then "As per the doco, this is a session-factory property".

An architectural issue? I do not know what kind of an architectural issue existed in 2.1.1 timeframe, but with the latest changes around types I do not see any. I am actually running with a patched Hibernate (only for 'hibernate.jdbc.use_streams_for_binary'), and the patch changes just 2 lines in org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType. This is just a functionality change, I realize that the patch would also need to change some other classes, deprecate things here and there, and update the documentation.


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