I don’t know much about EclipseLink, I only worked with it once on WebLogic.
But does it already have the latest JPA updates and integration with Jakarta Data? I’m a bit out of touch with the recent evolutions of the Jakarta EE platform. On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 11:14 Jonathan S. Fisher <exabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > My vote would actually be EclipseLink, not Hibernate :) I've used both and > greatly prefer it at scale, especially in how it performs with its cache. > However, as long as there continues to be a TomEE distribution with > Eclipselink in it, tis a mute point what the default is IMHO. > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM Evaldo Junior <evaldoapjun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > + 1 vote to use Hibernate insted of Open Jpa. > > I have never used OpenJpa. > > I have been using Hibernate since 2.006. > > > > > > Evaldo Junior > > > > Em sex, 26 de set de 2025 10:18, Thomas Andraschko < > > andraschko.tho...@gmail.com> escreveu: > > > > > +1 for hibernate + hibernate for Jakarta data > > > > > > Daniel Dias Dos Santos <daniel.dias.analist...@gmail.com> schrieb am > > Fr., > > > 26. Sept. 2025, 14:34: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I vote +1 to make Hibernate the default in TomEE. > > > > > > > > Honestly, I have never used OpenJPA. > > > > > > > > And most developers use Hibernate. > > > > > > > > Since it is already under the Apache license, I believe it would be a > > > huge > > > > gain for the project, as it has a strong community around it and is > > > already > > > > implementing Jakarta Data. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 05:29 Richard Zowalla <r...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I’d like to start a discussion about the future of OpenJPA in > TomEE, > > > > > specifically whether it’s time to consider replacing it with > > Hibernate. > > > > > > > > > > Hibernate 7 is now ASLv2 licensed, fully implements the latest spec > > > > > features, and already supports Jakarta Data for EE 11. This puts it > > in > > > a > > > > > strong position to meet our needs moving forward, especially as we > > look > > > > > toward TomEE 11. > > > > > > > > > > By contrast, OpenJPA has struggled to keep up, and realistically we > > > don’t > > > > > appear to have enough development resources to build and maintain > an > > > > > ASF-only implementation of Jakarta Data. In fact, we made a similar > > > > > decision when we gave up the ASF-only spec implementations some > time > > > ago. > > > > > > > > > > Of course, anyone who prefers to stay with OpenJPA can still swap > it > > > in, > > > > > but from my perspective, I believe we should seriously consider > > whether > > > > > Hibernate should become the default going forward. > > > > > > > > > > I’d like to hear your thoughts, both on the practical implications > > for > > > > > TomEE and the overall direction we should take. > > > > > > > > > > Gruß > > > > > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jonathan | exabr...@gmail.com > Pessimists, see a jar as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half > full. > Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to > be. >
