Did you think about using the java services mechanism? Essentialy placing a file in META-INF/services: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/sound/programmer_guide/chapter13.html ?
I don't think it gives any functionality, but is a standard way for doing such things. Adam On Mar 27, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote: > HHH-5562 is done, which introduces a locator/discovery means for integrating > with Hibernate. Specifically it introduces the (alternate name suggestions > welcome, i am indifferent to this one) org.hibernate.impl.Integrator > interface. > > It does discovery based on a classpath lookup for a well-defined filename > (can > discover multiple) which names an implementor of this interface. The process > occurs in the midst of Sessionfactory building to account for the main use > cases I know of including Envers, Search, Validation and BV. Currently I > additionally define those 4 as "built in" integrators, meaning there is no > need for them to define auto-discovery files unless we want them to be > integrated in that manner (I know for example that Search is interested in > this via HSEARCH-595). Anyway, we should probably decide pretty early which > integrations we want done which way. > > Actually I take one part back. Envers is actually handed by discovery due to > the fact that it is in a separate project (jar). The others were done this > way because they already had the reflection code in place to do this. So for > it, we need to decide if we want to go the opposite way. > > > --- > Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> > http://hibernate.org > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev -- Adam Warski http://www.warski.org http://www.softwaremill.eu _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
