Re: [hibernate-dev] Envers set up

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Ebersole
Is anyone aware of a current, valid use-case of allowing the same listener class to be registered multiple times for the same event? I know we have many "multi-faceted listeners that listen for many events. Thats not what I mean. I mean, is there ever a time anyone can think of when something lik

Re: [hibernate-dev] Envers set up

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Ebersole
I am not a fan of this. For a number of reasons. First this means added complexity to manage the list of listeners in regards to (1) not over-writing any explicitly registered listeners and (b) not duplicating listeners. Second keep in mind that the hibernate3.jar from the release distribution

Re: [hibernate-dev] Envers set up

2010-09-13 Thread Emmanuel Bernard
I would favor such model ie. an automatic event registration when the lib is in the classpath. We could generalize that actually to let any lib to register its event listeners (maybe something a la service locator). Today Search and Validator have a specific hook in Core. On 11 sept. 2010, at 09