Questions on OpenEJB, Castor and TranQL in Geronimo

[sissonj]

Hi,

I am trying to get a better understanding of database support in Geronimo (and its components) and have a number of questions:

* The page http://openejb.codehaus.org/about.html indicates that OpenEJB provides EJB1.1 compatibility, but on the page http://openejb.codehaus.org/cvs.html it indicates that the version of OpenEJB for Geronimo has EJB 2.x support.

    * Can anyone give an indication of the extent of the current EJB 2.x support?

    * Is the JIRA issue GERONIMO-173 titled "EJB 1.1 CMP EntityBean Support" an OpenEJB problem or a Geronimo/OpenEJB integration problem? Does anyone have more info on this issue?

* Whilst trying to get a picture of the current state of OpenEJB,  I noticed that there are JIRA issues for OpenEJB on both the Geronimo and the http://openejb.codehaus.org/ site.
   When is each site used for raising issues? (e.g. is the Geronimo JIRA database only used to record OpenEJB problems that impact integration of OpenEJB into Geronimo or passing TCK tests)?

* Geronimo uses Castor version 0.9.3.9, which is dated December 11, 2001.  Is there a reason why more recent versions are not used? ( http://www.castor.org/changelog.html )

* If I want to use Geronimo with a proprietary database that has a JDBC driver, is Castor the only library that may need modification to work with the proprietary database?  What about TranQL?

* What is TranQL's relationship with Geronimo and it's dependencies (e.g. which components use, or plan to use TranQL and under what circumstances would it be used)?  I tried to find more info but the TranQL site seems a bit broken (raised issue http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/TQL-2 )

* Where can I view the TranQL source?

Thanks for your help,

John Sisson