[hibernate-dev] Dialect Registration

[Tomoto Shimizu Washio]

Hi,

I have finished up a document and a patch for Dialect Registration
mechanism, and I posted them as an attachment to HHH-2933 which I think
was a related topic.
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2933

I have reached this design after trying to make it easy for users to
integrate optional or third-party dialects into their applications.
It might be a bit different from what you had had in your mind...

Hope it helps,
Tomoto


On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:27:42 +0900
Tomoto Shimizu Washio <tomoto at kh.rim.or.jp> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:02:39 -0500
> Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> 
> > Dialect "registration" in DialectFactory would be fantastic.  It was
> > planned from the get-go, but I never had a chance to circle back around
> > to it.  Its not all that difficult.  But we should agree on a basic
> > format for the externalized definitions.
> 
> I have a design where each dialect implementation knows the database
> name and the version it can be applied to, and users just need to
> enumerate the dialect class names in the configuration file to register
> them.  If you were interested in this idea, I could write down the
> design sketch and/or the code and post them to this ML or JIRA.
> 
> > Like Chris said, we need to do an "extras" module anyway at some point.
> > So let us know if you'd like this Dialect added there when we do.
> 
> I appreciate your offer.  We will decide when the module comes. 
> Possibly we should not move the dialect to "extras" after it was
> released in jp.co.hitachi package and users started to use it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tomoto
> 
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