I apologize for this possibly being offtopic or irrelavent, but I was wondering if there has ever been any consideration given to allowing Hibernate to map Java Objects to other types of data sources like Object databases, XML databases, or just XML for example? Has this ever been discussed?
I will give a little background on my situation. We are writing a medial imaging application and we use a database as our main persistence source. To allow data to be transfered from one installation (or to communicate with external plugins) we use a XML representation of the data. The current solution is a custom persistence layer using JDBC and JDOM. I am investigating other solutions and came across Hibernate. I really like Hibernate's philosphy and design and after a quick overview of the source think it could effectively map objects to other data sources as well as relational databases. (BTW, I'm really excited that you guys are already implementing JSR-175 annotations!) Is this something the Hibernate community is interested in? Regards, -- Clint M. Frederickson <clintf at quark.cs.montana.edu> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
