[news.eclipse.technology.jsr220-orm] Re: VOA 4

["Robert Greene" <rgreene@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christiaan,

There is no direct relationship between this project and the Versant Open
Access open source runtime.  There is only an indirect relationship in that
many of the Versant engineers are working on both.  The tooling is meant to
be open and support any runtime vendor who wants to use the tooling
extension points or just use the generic runtime option if their runtime is
spec compliant.  This is demonstrated by the toolings support for Hibernate
in addition to Generic runtimes.  We actually had to create a special plugin
for Hibernate because in some cases it was not creating column names
according to spec so default DDL generation found in Generic would not work.
Plus we thought a few other packing and configuration points would be handy.

We had to withdrawl the original runtime offering to the project due to
conflicts with the eclipse organizations positioning with respect to
"runtime" -vs- "tooling".   Our runtime was removed at the request of the
Eclipse foundation.

So, there will be no combined packaging.  However, we definitely want to
support the VOA community and will release a runtime vendor option
specifically for VOA shortly and provide the appropriate download links as
you find with Hibernate.

-Robert


"Christiaan" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a question regarding the relation between this jsr220 project and
> versant's open access. What I understand from the project site this
project
> is about providing tooling for any EJB 3 and JDO 2 implementations. Of
> course, that will include VOA, but will VOA be part of this project as
well
> in terms of part of the download, roadmap, bugzilla, forum etc? Currently
I
> cant find an indication for this on the site (except for the fact that
this
> project started by VOA going open source). It is even hardly promoted as
> EJB/JDO implementation (only generic and hibernate are being mentioned).
VOA
> already has a nice community and merging it with this project would in my
> opinion really be beneficial for both the project and VOA.
>
> btw, great work on the progress made so far!
>
> Christiaan
>
>