[hibernate-dev] hibernate-extras

[Steve Ebersole]

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
> >
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> >
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Steve Ebersole

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