On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Robert McIntosh wrote:
I subscribed a couple of weeks ago and have yet to see a message, so I thought I would make sure I'm getting them!
On another note, I am working on a persistence engine that I would love for apache to host, but at the moment I do not have the required 3 commiters. However if anyone would like to join the love, here is some of the documentation I have been working on lately. It isn't complete and a tad bit scattered, but the rationale is there as well as some of the configuration stuff so anyone should be able to get a good idea of what is going on.
http://www.bull-enterprises.com/aom
In a nutshell, it is not just an O/R mapper, but a generic persistence engine that can be used as an O/R mapping tool. It's current state of development is that it is in one production application already, but I am going through a bit of a refactor to the mapping stuff (it is amazing what a real application will bring to light!), and working on more unit tests as I progress in that area.
It currently uses several Commons projects such as JXPath, Jexl, BeanUtils, etc. some of which is documented on the site I listed. If anyone is interested let me know, otherwise I'll have to resort to sourceforge :-\
Speaking for myself only, I'm not sure db.apache.org is in a good position to incubate projects composed largely or exclusivly of non-apache folks right now. You might want to consider <http://incubator.apache.org/> or <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons> as a better starting point (perhaps eventually moving to a part of the db.apache project). You could also do worse than starting out at sourceforge and migrating to apache once you've got a stronger community.
Thanks, Robert McIntosh
