Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

2006-08-01 Thread Craig L Russell
It's my fault. I read email recent-first and didn't notice Brett  
created -4 (hours earlier) which I duplicated with -5. But -6 is a  
different issue...


Imagine my surprise that we now have duplicates in our tiny JIRA repo!

Craig

On Jul 31, 2006, at 11:07 PM, Brett Porter wrote:


Hmm, did we all create the same JIRA issue? :)

I crated OPENJPA-4 at the same time as the other issue, but it seems
-5 and -6 are both about the same thing.

- Brett

On 01/08/06, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This definitely needs a JIRA issue. We should use the JIRA to track
our discussion of the issue, unless folks think it's better to use
our wiki. Is it set up yet?

Craig

On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:

Yes, OpenJPA implements Statement, ResultSet, Connection, and maybe a
couple other JDBC interfaces. See
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.Delegating*. We do this for a number of
reasons: to resolve database-specific bugs in a transparent  
fashion, to

provide logging, to handle reference counting, etc.

The pressing issue is that we must provide implementations of all  
of the

methods in the various java.sql interfaces. The fact that we do not
implement the new JDBC4 methods is why OpenJPA won't currently  
compile

against JDK6. This is pretty easy to fix; take a look at
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.DelegatingStatement to see how we handled
this for JDBC3. Since we know that we never invoke the new  
methods, we
can happily throw unsupported operation exceptions for the new  
methods.


However, these unsupported methods do provide a challenge. While Kodo
doesn't use any of these methods, our mechanism for implementing  
them is

limiting, in that users who obtain Connections from Kodo will not be
able to use the new JDBC3/JDBC4 methods in their own code.  
Ideally, we

should provide some means for people to designate to OpenJPA that it
should use a dynamic proxy to implement the unimplemented methods.  
This

shouldn't be the default behavior, as the dynamic proxy will add
overhead, but certainly could be desirable for some. I'll file an  
issue.

>
> -Patrick
>
> --
> Patrick Linskey
> BEA Systems, Inc.
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:02 PM
>> To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)
>>
>> You can access earlier versions of jdbc to compile against
>> using special javac properties for library jars. But I don't
>> know how maven deals with this.
>>
>> What specific errors are you getting when compiling against  
jdbc 4?

>> I'm not aware of any additions that would make programs that
>> compile against jdbc 3 not compile against jdbc 4. You don't
>> *implement* any jdbc interfaces, do you?
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:
>>
>>>>>> BTW, you may be aware, but it doesn't compile on Java 6
>>>> due to the
>>>>>> JDBC interface changes. I'll add that to JIRA if its not there
>>>>>> already.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, we've had this problem in the past as well.
>>>> Historically, we've
>>>>> created special modified JDBC jars so that we can compile
>>>> on earlier
>>>>> VM versions. How is this type of problem typically handled
>>>> in Apache-land?
>>>>
>>>> Isn't this the other way around? If the additional methods are
>>>> implemented to make it compile on Java 6, it will continue to be
>>>> binary compatible with the earlier JDBC versions.
>>>
>>> Yes, that. Meant "so that we can run on earlier VM versions."
>>>
>>> So... how does Apache typically deal with this? The only
>> alternate to
>>> the way we've done things in the past is an approach that
>> uses dynamic
>>> proxies / auto-generated proxies / dynamically-modified classes.
>>>
>>> -Patrick
>>>
>>  
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RE: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

2006-07-31 Thread Patrick Linskey
OPENJPA-6 was supposed to be about creating subclasses of the proxy
types that actually delegate through on the fly. Maybe I didn't capture
that difference very well. Eloquence is not my friend today.

-Patrick

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> -Original Message-
> From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:07 PM
> To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)
> 
> Hmm, did we all create the same JIRA issue? :)
> 
> I crated OPENJPA-4 at the same time as the other issue, but it seems
> -5 and -6 are both about the same thing.
> 
> - Brett
> 
> On 01/08/06, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This definitely needs a JIRA issue. We should use the JIRA to track 
> > our discussion of the issue, unless folks think it's better 
> to use our 
> > wiki. Is it set up yet?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:
> >
> > Yes, OpenJPA implements Statement, ResultSet, Connection, 
> and maybe a 
> > couple other JDBC interfaces. See 
> > org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.Delegating*. We do this for a number of
> > reasons: to resolve database-specific bugs in a transparent 
> fashion, 
> > to provide logging, to handle reference counting, etc.
> >
> > The pressing issue is that we must provide implementations 
> of all of 
> > the methods in the various java.sql interfaces. The fact that we do 
> > not implement the new JDBC4 methods is why OpenJPA won't currently 
> > compile against JDK6. This is pretty easy to fix; take a look at 
> > org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.DelegatingStatement to see how 
> we handled 
> > this for JDBC3. Since we know that we never invoke the new 
> methods, we 
> > can happily throw unsupported operation exceptions for the 
> new methods.
> >
> > However, these unsupported methods do provide a challenge. 
> While Kodo 
> > doesn't use any of these methods, our mechanism for 
> implementing them 
> > is limiting, in that users who obtain Connections from Kodo 
> will not 
> > be able to use the new JDBC3/JDBC4 methods in their own 
> code. Ideally, 
> > we should provide some means for people to designate to 
> OpenJPA that 
> > it should use a dynamic proxy to implement the 
> unimplemented methods. 
> > This shouldn't be the default behavior, as the dynamic 
> proxy will add 
> > overhead, but certainly could be desirable for some. I'll 
> file an issue.
> > >
> > > -Patrick
> > >
> > > --
> > > Patrick Linskey
> > > BEA Systems, Inc.
> > >
> > >> -Original Message-
> > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:02 PM
> > >> To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > >> Subject: Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)
> > >>
> > >> You can access earlier versions of jdbc to compile against using 
> > >> special javac properties for library jars. But I don't know how 
> > >> maven deals with this.
> > >>
> > >> What specific errors are you getting when compiling 
> against jdbc 4?
> > >> I'm not aware of any additions that would make programs that 
> > >> compile against jdbc 3 not compile against jdbc 4. You don't
> > >> *implement* any jdbc interfaces, do you?
> > >>
> > >> Craig
> > >>
> > >> On Jul 31, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>>>> BTW, you may be aware, but it doesn't compile on Java 6
> > >>>> due to the
> > >>>>>> JDBC interface changes. I'll add that to JIRA if its 
> not there 
> > >>>>>> already.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Yeah, we've had this problem in the past as well.
> > >>>> Historically, we've
> > >>>>> created special modified JDBC jars so that we can compile
> > >>>> on earlier
> > >>>>> VM versions. How is this type of problem typically handled
> > >>>> in Apache-land?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Isn't this the other way around? If the additional methods are 
> > >>>> implemented to make it compile on Java 6, it will 
> continue to be 
> > >>>> binary compatible with the earlier JDBC versions.
> > >>>
> > >>> Yes, that. Meant

Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

2006-07-31 Thread Brett Porter

Hmm, did we all create the same JIRA issue? :)

I crated OPENJPA-4 at the same time as the other issue, but it seems
-5 and -6 are both about the same thing.

- Brett

On 01/08/06, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This definitely needs a JIRA issue. We should use the JIRA to track
our discussion of the issue, unless folks think it's better to use
our wiki. Is it set up yet?

Craig

On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:

Yes, OpenJPA implements Statement, ResultSet, Connection, and maybe a
couple other JDBC interfaces. See
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.Delegating*. We do this for a number of
reasons: to resolve database-specific bugs in a transparent fashion, to
provide logging, to handle reference counting, etc.

The pressing issue is that we must provide implementations of all of the
methods in the various java.sql interfaces. The fact that we do not
implement the new JDBC4 methods is why OpenJPA won't currently compile
against JDK6. This is pretty easy to fix; take a look at
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.DelegatingStatement to see how we handled
this for JDBC3. Since we know that we never invoke the new methods, we
can happily throw unsupported operation exceptions for the new methods.

However, these unsupported methods do provide a challenge. While Kodo
doesn't use any of these methods, our mechanism for implementing them is
limiting, in that users who obtain Connections from Kodo will not be
able to use the new JDBC3/JDBC4 methods in their own code. Ideally, we
should provide some means for people to designate to OpenJPA that it
should use a dynamic proxy to implement the unimplemented methods. This
shouldn't be the default behavior, as the dynamic proxy will add
overhead, but certainly could be desirable for some. I'll file an issue.
>
> -Patrick
>
> --
> Patrick Linskey
> BEA Systems, Inc.
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:02 PM
>> To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)
>>
>> You can access earlier versions of jdbc to compile against
>> using special javac properties for library jars. But I don't
>> know how maven deals with this.
>>
>> What specific errors are you getting when compiling against jdbc 4?
>> I'm not aware of any additions that would make programs that
>> compile against jdbc 3 not compile against jdbc 4. You don't
>> *implement* any jdbc interfaces, do you?
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:
>>
>>>>>> BTW, you may be aware, but it doesn't compile on Java 6
>>>> due to the
>>>>>> JDBC interface changes. I'll add that to JIRA if its not there
>>>>>> already.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, we've had this problem in the past as well.
>>>> Historically, we've
>>>>> created special modified JDBC jars so that we can compile
>>>> on earlier
>>>>> VM versions. How is this type of problem typically handled
>>>> in Apache-land?
>>>>
>>>> Isn't this the other way around? If the additional methods are
>>>> implemented to make it compile on Java 6, it will continue to be
>>>> binary compatible with the earlier JDBC versions.
>>>
>>> Yes, that. Meant "so that we can run on earlier VM versions."
>>>
>>> So... how does Apache typically deal with this? The only
>> alternate to
>>> the way we've done things in the past is an approach that
>> uses dynamic
>>> proxies / auto-generated proxies / dynamically-modified classes.
>>>
>>> -Patrick
>>>
>> _
>> _
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>>
>> Craig Russell
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>> jdo
>> 408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
>>
>>
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Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

2006-07-31 Thread Craig L Russell
This definitely needs a JIRA issue. We should use the JIRA to track  
our discussion of the issue, unless folks think it's better to use  
our wiki. Is it set up yet?


Craig

On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:

Yes, OpenJPA implements Statement, ResultSet, Connection, and maybe a
couple other JDBC interfaces. See
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.Delegating*. We do this for a number of
reasons: to resolve database-specific bugs in a transparent fashion, to
provide logging, to handle reference counting, etc.

The pressing issue is that we must provide implementations of all of the
methods in the various java.sql interfaces. The fact that we do not
implement the new JDBC4 methods is why OpenJPA won't currently compile
against JDK6. This is pretty easy to fix; take a look at
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.DelegatingStatement to see how we handled
this for JDBC3. Since we know that we never invoke the new methods, we
can happily throw unsupported operation exceptions for the new methods.

However, these unsupported methods do provide a challenge. While Kodo
doesn't use any of these methods, our mechanism for implementing them is
limiting, in that users who obtain Connections from Kodo will not be
able to use the new JDBC3/JDBC4 methods in their own code. Ideally, we
should provide some means for people to designate to OpenJPA that it
should use a dynamic proxy to implement the unimplemented methods. This
shouldn't be the default behavior, as the dynamic proxy will add
overhead, but certainly could be desirable for some. I'll file an issue.


-Patrick

--
Patrick Linskey
BEA Systems, Inc.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:02 PM
To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

You can access earlier versions of jdbc to compile against
using special javac properties for library jars. But I don't
know how maven deals with this.

What specific errors are you getting when compiling against jdbc 4?
I'm not aware of any additions that would make programs that
compile against jdbc 3 not compile against jdbc 4. You don't
*implement* any jdbc interfaces, do you?

Craig

On Jul 31, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:


BTW, you may be aware, but it doesn't compile on Java 6

due to the

JDBC interface changes. I'll add that to JIRA if its not there
already.


Yeah, we've had this problem in the past as well.

Historically, we've

created special modified JDBC jars so that we can compile

on earlier

VM versions. How is this type of problem typically handled

in Apache-land?

Isn't this the other way around? If the additional methods are
implemented to make it compile on Java 6, it will continue to be
binary compatible with the earlier JDBC versions.


Yes, that. Meant "so that we can run on earlier VM versions."

So... how does Apache typically deal with this? The only

alternate to

the way we've done things in the past is an approach that

uses dynamic

proxies / auto-generated proxies / dynamically-modified classes.

-Patrick

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RE: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

2006-07-31 Thread Patrick Linskey
Yes, OpenJPA implements Statement, ResultSet, Connection, and maybe a
couple other JDBC interfaces. See
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.Delegating*. We do this for a number of
reasons: to resolve database-specific bugs in a transparent fashion, to
provide logging, to handle reference counting, etc.

The pressing issue is that we must provide implementations of all of the
methods in the various java.sql interfaces. The fact that we do not
implement the new JDBC4 methods is why OpenJPA won't currently compile
against JDK6. This is pretty easy to fix; take a look at
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.DelegatingStatement to see how we handled
this for JDBC3. Since we know that we never invoke the new methods, we
can happily throw unsupported operation exceptions for the new methods.

However, these unsupported methods do provide a challenge. While Kodo
doesn't use any of these methods, our mechanism for implementing them is
limiting, in that users who obtain Connections from Kodo will not be
able to use the new JDBC3/JDBC4 methods in their own code. Ideally, we
should provide some means for people to designate to OpenJPA that it
should use a dynamic proxy to implement the unimplemented methods. This
shouldn't be the default behavior, as the dynamic proxy will add
overhead, but certainly could be desirable for some. I'll file an issue.

-Patrick

-- 
Patrick Linskey
BEA Systems, Inc.  

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:02 PM
> To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)
> 
> You can access earlier versions of jdbc to compile against 
> using special javac properties for library jars. But I don't 
> know how maven deals with this.
> 
> What specific errors are you getting when compiling against jdbc 4?  
> I'm not aware of any additions that would make programs that 
> compile against jdbc 3 not compile against jdbc 4. You don't 
> *implement* any jdbc interfaces, do you?
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:
> 
> >>>> BTW, you may be aware, but it doesn't compile on Java 6
> >> due to the
> >>>> JDBC interface changes. I'll add that to JIRA if its not there 
> >>>> already.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, we've had this problem in the past as well.
> >> Historically, we've
> >>> created special modified JDBC jars so that we can compile
> >> on earlier
> >>> VM versions. How is this type of problem typically handled
> >> in Apache-land?
> >>
> >> Isn't this the other way around? If the additional methods are 
> >> implemented to make it compile on Java 6, it will continue to be 
> >> binary compatible with the earlier JDBC versions.
> >
> > Yes, that. Meant "so that we can run on earlier VM versions."
> >
> > So... how does Apache typically deal with this? The only 
> alternate to 
> > the way we've done things in the past is an approach that 
> uses dynamic 
> > proxies / auto-generated proxies / dynamically-modified classes.
> >
> > -Patrick
> > 
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Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

2006-07-31 Thread Craig L Russell
You can access earlier versions of jdbc to compile against using  
special javac properties for library jars. But I don't know how maven  
deals with this.


What specific errors are you getting when compiling against jdbc 4?  
I'm not aware of any additions that would make programs that compile  
against jdbc 3 not compile against jdbc 4. You don't *implement* any  
jdbc interfaces, do you?


Craig

On Jul 31, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:


BTW, you may be aware, but it doesn't compile on Java 6

due to the

JDBC interface changes. I'll add that to JIRA if its not there
already.


Yeah, we've had this problem in the past as well.

Historically, we've

created special modified JDBC jars so that we can compile

on earlier

VM versions. How is this type of problem typically handled

in Apache-land?

Isn't this the other way around? If the additional methods
are implemented to make it compile on Java 6, it will
continue to be binary compatible with the earlier JDBC versions.


Yes, that. Meant "so that we can run on earlier VM versions."

So... how does Apache typically deal with this? The only alternate to
the way we've done things in the past is an approach that uses dynamic
proxies / auto-generated proxies / dynamically-modified classes.

-Patrick
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RE: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

2006-07-31 Thread Patrick Linskey
> > > BTW, you may be aware, but it doesn't compile on Java 6 
> due to the 
> > > JDBC interface changes. I'll add that to JIRA if its not there 
> > > already.
> >
> > Yeah, we've had this problem in the past as well. 
> Historically, we've 
> > created special modified JDBC jars so that we can compile 
> on earlier 
> > VM versions. How is this type of problem typically handled 
> in Apache-land?
> 
> Isn't this the other way around? If the additional methods 
> are implemented to make it compile on Java 6, it will 
> continue to be binary compatible with the earlier JDBC versions.

Yes, that. Meant "so that we can run on earlier VM versions."

So... how does Apache typically deal with this? The only alternate to
the way we've done things in the past is an approach that uses dynamic
proxies / auto-generated proxies / dynamically-modified classes.

-Patrick
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Re: JDBC 4 (was: Was it just me?)

2006-07-31 Thread Brett Porter

On 01/08/06, Patrick Linskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Sweet! I think that that will make you the first non-BEA employee
committing to the codebase.


:)



> BTW, you may be aware, but it doesn't compile on Java 6 due
> to the JDBC interface changes. I'll add that to JIRA if its
> not there already.

Yeah, we've had this problem in the past as well. Historically, we've
created special modified JDBC jars so that we can compile on earlier VM
versions. How is this type of problem typically handled in Apache-land?


Isn't this the other way around? If the additional methods are
implemented to make it compile on Java 6, it will continue to be
binary compatible with the earlier JDBC versions.

Cheers,
Brett