[hibernate-dev] Some OGM ideas from feedback collected in India

Some older notes I failed to share so far: # unlike normal JPA we have to create an instance of JBossTSStandaloneTransactionManager It's a comment from a use who seems to had been studying OGM in depth and even made a demo, I'm not entirely sure what she means exactly but apparently the JPA binding doesn't integrate nicely within a container as the "plain ORM" JPA would. # Direct "Datasource" access from multiple apps It is often needed to have multiple applications access the same storage engine, and they might not necessarily all be using OGM. This brings two design requirements: - The encoding format of OGM needs to be flexible enough to map to existing "schemas" created by different tools and well documented so that other tools can be built using the encoding scheme used by OGM. - Hibernate Search is updated by Hibernate events; this is a limitation for "standard" Hibernate Search users which is mostly interpreted as "avoid stored procedures & batch updates"; In the case of standard Search users however we still expect the user to be able to run reliable RDBMS queries as well, having the fulltext only for the fulltext. I'm wondering if the OGM specific usage will need us to explore better event notifications for Search, possibly integrating with events generated by the data storage layer itself. Sanne