[hibernate-dev] hibernate-extras

Michael Plöd michael.ploed at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 17:16:42 EST 2007



PS: Nachricht ist kurz, wurde von meinem iPhone gesendet.

Am 12.11.2007 um 23:14 schrieb Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>:

> On Monday 12 November 2007 04:04:22 pm Michael Plöd wrote:
>> Honestly I think that the WebSphere TransactionManager Lookups should
>> remain in the "core" bundle. I know that it is a pain to test and
>> maintain but I think that Hibernate is Quote popular in WS  
>> environments
> Funny, the WS TM lookups are, to me, the epitome of what should get  
> moved ;)
> And the point is not that "it is a pain to test and maintain"; the  
> point is
> that it is not tested and is not maintained on a consistent basis,  
> or at all.
>
> Do you really think having the classes in one jar or another will  
> make them
> any less popular or usable?
>
> IMO, the thing that is being missed here is the ideal of open- 
> source, which is
> that someone with a stake in these WS TM lookups steps up and  
> maintains it.
>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>> Am 12.11.2007 um 22:41 schrieb Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>:
>>> Starting with 3.3 I plan on introducing hibernate-extras, which will
>>> be a
>>> separate jar which will include code which is un-tested and un-
>>> maintained by
>>> committers.  The impetus for this move is simply to make it clear to
>>> users
>>> what pieces of functionality are tested in an ongoing fashion and  
>>> are
>>> maintained by the Hibernate committers, versus those which are not.
>>>
>>> Users should have certain expectations in regards to those which are
>>> not
>>> (the "extras").  One such expectation is the fact that the quality
>>> may or may
>>> not be on par with the rest of the codebase; the important point
>>> being that
>>> we cannot guarentee the quality.  Another expectation would be in
>>> regards to
>>> support for that functionality, and the fact that for whatever
>>> reason noone
>>> with expertise on those components owns its maintenance; thus
>>> improvements
>>> and bug-fixes would be expected to be patches from the community (or
>>> that
>>> someone with a stake in that functionality would stand up and take
>>> on its
>>> maintenance).
>>>
>>> The code I currently see being moved there is quite a few of the
>>> TransactionManagerLookup impls and some of the Dialects (non-
>>> exhaustive):
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.DB2390Dialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.DB2400Dialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.FirebirdDialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.FrontBaseDialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.InformixDialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.JDataStoreDialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.MckoiDialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.MimerSQLDialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.PointbaseDialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.ProgressDialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.RDMSOS2200Dialect
>>> org.hibernate.dialect.SAPDBDialect
>>> org.hibernate.transaction.BESTransactionManagerLookup
>>> org.hibernate.transaction.JOnASTransactionManagerLookup
>>> org.hibernate.transaction.JOTMTransactionManagerLookup
>>> org.hibernate.transaction.JRun4TransactionManagerLookup
>>> org.hibernate.transaction.OC4JTransactionManagerLookup
>>> org.hibernate.transaction.OrionTransactionManagerLookup
>>> org.hibernate.transaction.WebSphereExtendedJTATransactionLookup
>>> org.hibernate.transaction.WebSphereTransactionManagerLookup
>>>
>>> (this is in addition to the already done splits on trunk)
>>>
>>> Anyone feel any of the above should remain in the core bundle?
>>> Anything else
>>> we should move?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Ebersole
>>>
>>> Hibernate Project Lead
>>> http://hibernate.org
>>>
>>> Principal Software Engineer
>>> http://redhat.com
>>> http://jboss.org
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>
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