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Mark Struberg commented on OPENJPA-2514:
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totally agree with Romain. I'd love to ditch serp and all the other old stuff
we have here and use xbean-asm5 instead. This would also solve the problem with
Java8... Plus we know ASM5 very well already as we use it in OpenWebBeans,
TomEE, Geronimo, etc.
The only problem is that I have absolutely no free cycles atm because I'm 100%
busy with $$dayjob where I can only work on the parts I need for the job
(BatchEE, DeltaSpike and TomEE). And all my sparetime is reserved for
OpenWebBeans-2.0.
I hope to have a bit time for it after we pass the CDI-1.2 TCK in OWB.
> ASM dependency revisited
> ------------------------
>
> Key: OPENJPA-2514
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-2514
> Project: OpenJPA
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: kernel
> Affects Versions: 2.2.2, 2.3.0, 2.4.0
> Reporter: Rick Curtis
> Assignee: Rick Curtis
>
> OPENJPA-2171 introduced a dependency on xbean-asm-4 and with this JIRA I'd
> like to revisit that issue.
> On the mailing list the TomEE folks have pointed that they need a java 6
> release with xbean asm5(in support of runtime java8) and Kevin has even
> reverted a number of changes to trunk to rollback some of the java7(compile)
> support changes. I put together a patch that is similar to Romain's patch
> from OPENJPA-2171 that will selectively load whichever ASM library is
> available for a given environment. The attached patch will also upgrade the
> packaged asm dependency in openjpa-all to xbean-asm-5, but that could be
> changed depending on the environment.
> While I understand, and appreciate the need to insulate OpenJPA from
> ASM(breaking) changes, I don't like the fact that to use OpenJPA a user is
> also required to use a special version of ASM. There are scenarios where a
> user might already have their own 'blessed' version of ASM in use, and they
> don't want to have yet another copy. Allowing for selecting loading of a
> given ASM library should be able to satisfy both use cases.
> If this seems like a reasonable way forward, I could commit this change to
> trunk and 2.3.x. This would mean that the TomEE folks could cut another
> release from the 2.3.x branch, rather than creating yet another branch for
> limited benefit.
> Thoughts, comments?
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