I've never used it, but this sounds similar to what you are proposing: http://rmijdbc.objectweb.org/
Later Rob > > I've been thinking about the problem of users who ask for > "lazy fetching from the client". As we keep explaining, > this is an incredibly bad idea, since transaction > demarcation and caching (and probably also dirty checking) > should take place in the same tier as lazy fetching. > > However, many of these users are writing Swing or rich client > applications and I think perhaps the reason they ask for this > is that they are forced to run Hibernate in the server tier > since they are not allowed to open a JDBC connection from the > client, and Hibernate is tied to the JDBC connection pool. > > After thinking about this, I think I've decided that there is > nothing at all wrong with doing data access via a remote > "gateway", so that Hibernate would run in the client tier and > act as a remote client of a server-side JDBC connection pool. > This would enable transaction demarcation, caching, dirty > checking and lazy fetching to be done on the client, but the > actual database access would take place on the server. > > Now, as far as I can see, there is no reason at all for this > to be implemented as part of the ORM solution. Indeed, it > makes much more sense for this to be simply wrapper abound > JDBC. The wrapper would do transparent batching of > INSERT/UPDATE/DELETEs and provide pluggable client/server > remotability strategies (RMI/SOAP/etc), delegating to > a server-side connection pool. It could even be used outside > of Hibernate. > > Does anyone know of an existing project like this? If not, > should we start one, under the aegis of hibernate.org? Is > anyone interested in starting work on this. I'm convinced > it is not at all difficult to implement. > > Have I gone insane? > > -- > Gavin King > +61 41 053 4454 > +1 404 822 8349 > > Hibernate > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hibernate.org > > JBoss Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://jboss.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. > From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the > one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and > evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
