[hibernate-dev] hibernate-extras

[Michael Plöd]

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

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
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