On Jul 23, 2011, at 8:47 PM, florent andré wrote: > > > On 07/23/2011 08:36 PM, Stefane Fermigier wrote: >> >> On Jul 22, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Sebastian Schaffert wrote: >> > ... >> >>> - license issue: LMF might still use libraries that are released under >>> incompatible licenses, so this needs to be checked. In particular, >>> Hibernate is still licensed under LGPL, and it is one of the core libraries >>> of the LMF; porting to other persistence frameworks might require a lot of >>> effort >> >> I don't know what's the ASF view on Hibernate. What are the alternatives ? >> EclipseLink is a viable alternative, I think, but it's licensed under the >> EPL. Does the ASF have a JPA project that's mature enough to replace >> Hibernate (OpenJPA ?) ? > > ASF is not in love with Hibernate. :) > Moreover if Hibernate is a required lib for the project. > > http://cayenne.apache.org/ > Can be considered as an alternative.
First time I'm hearing about Cayenne (which is a first bad sign), and Cayenne doesn't seem to implement JPA, which is doubly a bad sign: - It forces adherence to a non-standard way of doing things - It forces a big rewrite of LMF which uses JPA. S. -- Stefane Fermigier, Founder and Chairman, Nuxeo Open Source, Java EE based, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) http://www.nuxeo.com/ - +33 1 40 33 79 87 - http://twitter.com/sfermigier Join the Nuxeo Group on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/groups?gid=43314 New Nuxeo release: http://nuxeo.com/dm54 "There's no such thing as can't. You always have a choice."
