Hi Syncope team, my name is Christian Schneider and I am working together with Jan Bernhard on the CXF migration of Syncope.
We sometimes have problems running the rest itests in the core project from eclipse. When looking into the reasons we found that eclipse sometimes seems to overwrite the enhanced jpa classes with plain ones. I thought about how to solve this and found that it may be a good idea to split the persistence model and persistence impl out of core and into two separate modules. See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-241 So what do you think about this idea? Does it make sense or are there some good reasons to keep these packages in the core? While analysing how to do this split I found that there are a lot of dependency cycles in core. Especially the ones between persistence and impl impede moving out these packages. So if we agree to move the persistence we first have to solve the dependency cycles. I have added another issue to track this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-242 The good thing is that it looks worse than it is. I experimented with some ways to eliminate the cycles and am pretty sure I can do it. Jan told me that Francesco is working on a refactoring of the role code. So I would in any case wait till he has finished his work. Best regards Christian
