Hi Hugh,

Thanks for your concern, however Castor JDO *IS* being maintained. Bruce
Synder, the current Castor JDO lead, along with others, such as Micka�l
Guessant, are handling the maintenance, bug fixes, development of Castor
JDO.

Keep in mind that the work done on Castor is on a volunteer basis. Some
volunteers will have more time to spend then others, but I can assure
that there are people who are generously contributing to and maintaining
Castor JDO.

As far as where our efforts are focused, my efforts are focused, and
always have been, almost entirely on Castor XML, because that's where my
interests are and the fact that I primarily deal with XML in my daily
job. But... there are people whose efforts are focused entirely on
Castor JDO.

Due to the differences in the amount of time that people can contribute
to the project, Castor XML and Castor JDO will see un-even amounts of
growth. Just because one side of the project has more activity than the
other, doesn't mean that the other side isn't being worked on.

Thanks,

--Keith


Hugh Winkler wrote:
> 
> 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
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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