[news.eclipse.technology.jsr220-orm] Re: Databases supported

[Christian Sell <christian.sell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

what do you mean by "it is better choose another plugin"? I doubt the 
jsr220 people will want to or be able to switch a fundamental component 
of their project..

IMO DTP should offer extension points to easily add missing databases


Haris Peco wrote:
> i don't know what is plan for this project, but database plugin is probably
> dtp and they have plan for late 6Q1 - it is now unusable - oracle driver is
> generic and port to postgresql is easy (we need only db definition file -
> mostly define database types)
> it is better choose another plugin - better choice currently is sqlexplorer,
> quantum ...
> michael wrote:
>
>
> > ditto
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:19:01 +0200 schrieb Werner Punz <werpu@xxxxxx>:
> >
> >
> > > Yes please add postgresql support, it really is one
> > > of the best OSS dbs out there, and definitely has reached
> > > a critical mass to justify an inclusion.
> > >
> > >
> > > snpe wrote:
> > >
> > > > +1 for postgresql
> > > >
> > > > advantage - no partnership with sco
> > > >
> > > > Renaud Denis wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > +1
> > > > >
> > > > > Bill a Ãcrit :
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I am sorry to hear that PostgreSQL is not supported.  We did a project
> > > > > > with MySQL because it was "free" and then found out it is not free to
> > > > > > commercial organziations like ours.  Now we pay a licensing fee and
> > > > > > carefully track assignement of licenses, which is another cost.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > PostgreSQL is truly free.  It also seems to be far more robust and
> > > > > > reliable than MySQL.  We love Eclipse, so its lack of support here is
> > > > > > unfortunate and will probably force us to use Hibernate.
> > > > > > I would like to urge Eclipse's JSR220-ORM planners to include
> > > > > > PostgreSQL
> > > > > > in their plans and let everyone know.