Its more than just inactivity. As projects mature you expect some inactivity; its just the nature of the beast. What was more the issue was our attempts to contact the developers going unanswered. We tried for over a year to contact the CGLIB developers about this need for a release and got no response at all. That's when this decision was made.
See this JIRA case and its links for the history here: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2222 You might also want to check out http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3832 which is the upgrade to the since released CGLIB 2.2 On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 08:32 -0700, Nikita Tovstoles wrote: > Concern over CGLIB's inactivity is certainly valid. However, our internal > load-testing of javassist (a few months back) revealed that the library's > perf characteristics aren't quite ready for prime time. In some cases, our > system performed 2x faster with cglib v. javassist. I don't recall the exact > reason why, but possibly this was due to excess synchronization in javassist > code (I could be wrong about this though). > > -nikita > > -----Original Message----- > From: hibernate-dev-boun...@lists.jboss.org > [mailto:hibernate-dev-boun...@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Chris Bredesen > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:30 AM > To: hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] Why cglib was replaced with javassist? > > First result from a search in JIRA reveals this.... > > http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2506 > > So I think that's your answer :) > > -CB > > Unmesh joshi wrote: > > hi, > > > > Till hibernate 3.2 cglib was default bytecode provider. why was it > > changed to javassist? > > > > thanks, > > unmesh > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > MSN Battles We pitch one stalwart against the other and give you the > > power. Who will you vote for? Share photos while you chat with Windows > > Live Messenger. <http://battles.in.msn.com/> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev -- Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> Hibernate.org _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
