They are by no means complete/exhaustive but given the urgency around
removing Hibernate, I think I have enough tests to jump on the OpenJPA
implementation. Please shout if this has been picked up, otherwise
I plan to
start in on it.
+1 from me.
I looked a little bit at the (?) other persistence projects at Apache
-- iBatis and Cayenne (both incubating), but I haven't really made up
my mind as to their suitability yet.
- The elephant in the room with iBatis is the same as with raw JDBC
-- there is no schema generation facility, so a from-scratch database
design would be required for each database we wanted to support.
- Cayenne looks more promising in that it will generate the db schemas.
The almost cheating route may be to use Cayenne to import a Hibernate-
generated schema, generate objects from that, and bind them to the
DAO interfaces...
-- Paul
