[Springframework-developer] Is it worth keeping BCEL around at all?

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

You may not know this, but ASM has switched from an LGPL to BSD license. 
Given that BCEL is so big and bloated (BCEL is 20 times larger, 500k vs 
25k), and runs a lot slower to boot, is it really worth using BCEL in 
any fashion any longer?

Hibernate runs a lot faster with cglib-asm than cglib with BCEL. I think 
cglib 2 won't even offer the option of using BCEL...

The only direct dependency we seem to have on BCEL right now is 
BcelAttributes and BcelAttributeWriter.

What does everybody think?