[hibernate-dev] solidDB Hibernate dialect ?

[Chris Bredesen]

We discussed some other ways to deal with Dialects in the past:

http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/hibernate-dev/2008-September/003323.html

I still like Option 3 -- make the Dialect available with the JDBC driver 
distribution but I don't know of anyone doing this today.

-CB

On 04/16/2010 12:38 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> In terms of actually getting it included?  Well just passing the
> testsuite is of course a first step.
>
> Beyond that though I am a little leery of adding new dialects "just
> because someone contributed (dumped) it".  The reasoning is quite
> simple.  We have quite a bit of this type of "integration code" in
> Hibernate already that goes unmaintained for long spurts of time.  And
> truth be told a lot of it deals with DB2 variants and WebSphere which of
> course makes me a little even more leery here.  So for this aspect we
> would need you (or someone) to take ownership of this code.  If you
> agree to that we can discuss those particulars off list.
>
> Also realize that the contributions *must* be LGPL.  We have had issues
> with that previously with regards to IBM employees and IBM's legal teams
> from LGPL FUD.  To that end, y'all must sign a contributor agreement
> accepting the terms of LGPL and agreeing to your contributions being
> made publicly available under its terms.
>
> Also, how many Hibernate users are actually using solidDB?
>
>
> On 04/16/2010 10:48 AM, Niall DOWNEY wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> thanks for the info. Is it just a case of checking out the latest Test
>> Suite code from CVS and running what are probably JUnit tests ?. Is there
>> anything else we need to do or be aware of ?.
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>> Regards,
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>> Niall
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>> On 04/15/2010 07:39 AM, Niall DOWNEY wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> I work for IBM and we are investigating adding our solidDB dialect to the
>>> existing set in Hibernate. Can someone tell me how we go about this and
>> who
>>> should we talk to ?.
>>>
>>> Apologies if this is off-topic but it was suggested in the "Hibernate
>>> Users" forum that I try posting here.
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>> I'd start by filing a JIRA against Hibernate Core:
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>> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/
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>> Attach your Dialect to the issue.  Run the test suite against your
>> dialect and learn what works and what doesn't.  The best thing we can do
>> for users of a Dialect is set expectations about known issues.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Chris (who has little/no say in what gets included, just trying to help)
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