[news.eclipse.technology.jsr220-orm] Re: JSR243 support in JSR220ORM pro

["Robert Greene" <rgreene@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Luc,

Yes, I think you are right.  The roadmap of this project need to be updated
to reflect better the realities of implementation in addition to its
desires.  I will do that in the next few days.  In the "Introduction"
section of the roadmap it does state that we want to build the tooling so
that it can "provide an implementation that is extensible to accommodate new
types of input and generate artifacts for alternative runtimes".  The
Milestones that were initially defined were clearly targeting JSR220
capabilities and that is still the current direction as the "merge" of the
specs as described in the charter seem to be more of a movement towards
JSR220.   As much as we have desire to support JDO as another artifact, it
has proven to be impractical given the projects resources to do this in a
meaningful timeframe.   We would certainly welcome more community
participation, so that we can do more in less time.  However, it seems that
for now JDO is simply an alternative type of runtime that the tooling
"could" support.

Bjorn has pointed out to me in the past that we need to be clearer regarding
our objectives and timelines.  There just always seems to be something else
that needs to be done.  I will update the roadmap in the next days.

Regards,
-Robert

Robert Greene
JSR220-ORM team lead
rgreene@xxxxxxxxxxx


> A longwinded way of ending up at the question: what support for JSR243
> can we expect from the project ? If there is none planned, shouldn't
> goals and roadmap state this more cleary ?
>
> Cheers, Luc.