Marc Prud'hommeaux wrote:
I think this is a very worthwhile project. James and a few others
excoriated me about this issue over beers after JavaOne last week,
and, while the bruises from their rhetorical assault are still
healing, their observations about the comparative out of
djencks wrote:
James,
Could extract from this verbiage the scenarios you'd like supported?
The simplest scenario is, take any maven 2 project which is using hibernate.
Switch the hibernate jars to openjpa jars edit the bits of the
persistence.xml that are required and have things work
Patrick Linskey-2 wrote:
How hard is it to add a reflection/cglib type alternative to the upfront
bytecode generation (like hibernate does) to save us from the
development-time pain?
Not particularly hard. There are a few APIs that would break for some
cases, but it's even pretty
Firstly before I start, openjpa is a great piece of software; I'm
particularly fond of the documentation and in particular the query language
parts. The CSS for the site is also awesome :)
However compared to hibernate, openjpa is still pretty painful to use from
an end users perspective and I
