[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HB-580) Undo deprecation of Configuration.addJar(String)

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The following comment has been added to this issue:

     Author: Max Rydahl Andersen
    Created: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:52 AM
       Body:
The reason it is still there is like any other deprecation - to be as much backwards compatiable as possible. Being deprecated does not make the method "not-work", it is just a hint to users that we might/would like to remove the method in the next major release.

You second answer i do not know the concrete answer for (i normally don't mess with stuff that cannot be reliably used across VM's) - post it in the forum, and you will probably get a better answer ;)

Regarding "safenes" of addJar(String resname) is that according to the java lang spec .class files and resources does not necessarily need to be a file system. Furthermore your program is not allowed to access the contents of META-INF/ and below via the classloaders - thus making it really hard to access that stuff ;)

Thus relying on being able to use File() on them (addJar(String) does) is not good.
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        Key: HB-580
    Summary: Undo deprecation of Configuration.addJar(String)
       Type: Improvement

     Status: Closed
   Priority: Critical
 Resolution: WON'T FIX

    Project: Hibernate2
 Components: 
             core
   Versions:
             2.1.1

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: tom quas

    Created: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 3:51 PM
    Updated: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:52 AM
Environment: API

Description:
I just realized that Configuration.addJar( String filename ) has been deprecated. I regularly use it to load mappings from the classpath.
Could you please leave it in for convenience?


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