Hibernate - difference between annotations and commons-annotations?

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Sam Levin picture Sam Levin · Jun 23, 2012 · Viewed 12.8k times · Source

To keep it short and sweet:

There is hibernate-commons-annotations 4.1.0-Final and hibernate-annotations 3.5.6-Final.

I'm a nub, what's the difference between them, and do I need them both?

Trying to "avoid" JPA and by that I mean using the JPA 2.0 standards embedded within Hibernate.

Thanks!

Answer

Ravi Kadaboina picture Ravi Kadaboina · Jun 23, 2012

Previously, hibernate-annotations was released and versioned from hibernate core. But from version 3.5 and up it is included with hibernate core. And for some reason it was still released from 3.5.0 to 3.5.6 but you do not need it anymore.

And coming to hibernate-commons-annotations, it is a utility project used by annotations based hibernate sub-projects. It is used by other hibernate projects like hibernate-search and thus is maintained as a separate project and it is a compile time dependency for hibernate-core v3.6.0 and up.

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