Commons Mapper: scope/roadmap?

[Max Rudman]

I've just discovered Commons Mapper project and would like to 
contribute. I built my own abstraction layer for Hibernate but would 
love to move to Mapper instead. I looked through current documentation 
and have a couple of questions.

1) Are specific implementations within the scope of this project? You 
mention several data mapping technologies (such as Hibernate, iBATIS, 
etc.) in project overview but I saw no specific implementations in the 
JavaDocs API. As I said, I have experience with Hibernate and would 
like to contribute in providing Hibernate Mapper implementation (if 
this is something that needs to be done).

2) Is query API something you envision being part of this package? 
Specifically, a Query-By-Example API which I found to be very useful in 
enterprise application development where one often needs to have the 
ability to search for records with flexible (dynamic) WHERE clause. 
Hibernate package provides such an API but obviously it is specific to 
their implementation and it would be nice to have the abstraction layer 
against that functionality as well.

This is my first time inquiring about contributing to Jakarta Commons 
so I apologize in advance if I am doing something inappropriate. I did 
search through both user and dev mailing list archives but couldn't 
find any information on the topics above.

Thanks in advance,
Max
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