Umm, did I miss something? I'm currently using the castor jdo/xml solution
for processing over $100 million/month in transactions for some of the
worlds largest retailers. Our database consists of more than 450 tables and
we generate and process more than 250,000 xml documents a month using castor
xml. 

It might just be me, but I'd say that these numbers speak to the quality of
the castor project. Someone _please_ prove me wrong. Let me tell ya, at this
point, a great part of the success of my team can be contributed to the
outstanding workmanship of the castor project. 

>> Anyway it has severe basic bugs that are not being worked on.
Thank you for your opinion. Overall,( and I feel that the numbers stated
above qualify me to make this statement), castor JDO has seen outstanding
success and will become a staple in the lives of java engineers everywhere.
I wouldn't bet the farm on unreliable software. 
With _any_ new software venture there are bound to be "bugs" of sorts until
the project has released a major version. I guess that's why the castor
version is still below '1'. The team is quite humble and will not release a
major version until they feel it's ready. There are a few minor issues that
need to be resolved but, IMHO, the JDO team has contributed to the success
and ability of our company to integrate partners as quickly as we do. We
certainly would not move forward, at the current rate of success, without
it! 

-john:m


-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Winkler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [castor-dev] Article about Castor-JDO



I think the silence speaks for itself. I don't think JDO is actively
being maintained? Correct me if I am wrong here somebody. Anyway it has
severe basic bugs that are not being worked on.

I don't want at all to disparage the Castor team's work. The XML work is
great. Looks like that's where their efforts currently are focused. I'm
guessing JDO is not strategic for them right now.

I think it's dangerous though, to leave JDO out there and foster the
impression that new projects ought to use it. It ought to be labeled
"experimental" or "deprecated" or something, so that developers don't
get the wrong impression about its suitability for production systems.


Hugh 



-----Original Message-----
From: Keld Helbig Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:43 AM
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Subject: [castor-dev] Article about Castor-JDO

I'm currently preparing an article about Castor-JDO for a large Java
web-site.
The article is a beginners tutorial to Castor-JDO.
Since I haven't got practical experience with Castor, I'd like to get in
contact with a skilled Castor-JDO person that could help me answer some
technical questions. I've tried to put some of my questions here in the
newsgroup, but without much success.
If you're interested in helping me the next week or so I'd be great.
I'll of course give you due credit in my article.

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