[hibernate-dev] Contributed with HiRDB Dialect

[Chris Bredesen]

Tomoto,

Thank you for the contribution!  Is there somewhere that one might 
obtain a copy of HiRDB to run the unit tests against?

-Chris

tomoto.shimizu.vt at hitachi.com wrote:
> Hi, my name is Tomoto at Software Division in Hitachi.
> 
> I have posted a dialect for HiRDB (Hitachi's RDBMS, see *1) to JIRA.
> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3465
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone in the team could take a look at it
> for evaluation, and I would be happy to solve the issues you saw if
> any.  I really wish this dialect to be incorporated into Hibernate
> so that our customers could easily use Hibernate on HiRDB.
> 
> This dialect comes with a feature to allow the user to declare the
> parameter types of user-defined functions in the properies file. It
> was necessary because HiRDB required ? parameters to be qualified by
> 'as <type>' in user-defined function invocations.  If there were
> other databases that required the similar feature, and if you thought
> my implementation was good enough to let them use, I might be able to
> make an entry point on the Dialect base class so that other subclasses
> could use it more easily.
> 
> *1 http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/prod/hirdb/
> 
> Thank you in advance,