On Mar 8, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Ron Gavlin wrote:
Greetings,
Any thoughts on how the introduction of EclipseLink-SDO &
EclipseLink-DAS might impact the SDO/DAS work being done here in
Tuscany? (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/eclipse/pdf/
eclipselink-faq.pdf). Are EclipseLink and Tuscany likely to co-
exist well into the future as competing, open source SDO & DAS
implementations (one bundled with Oracle Fusion middleware and the
other bundled with IBM WebSphere middleware)? How "expected" was
the EclipseLink announcement?
I hope we wind up in a world where Tuscany (and other open source)
SDO/DAS/SCA technologies are truly independent and not just bundled
with commercial products. To be successful, I think we really need to
concentrate on improving community diversity.
There are a number of things we should do to improve on this. One
thing worth considering is embracing and trying to work with the
EclipseLink community. Integrating with them, particularly in the
Java SCA runtime, would give users more choice as well as
(potentially) more capabilities. Maybe we could also see if there are
areas where we could collaborate directly on DAS and/or SDO as well?
Both communities could benefit from this collaboration. For example,
I was attracted by their "marketectural" approach of creating an
"heterogenous" DAS that leverages JPA and supports XML-oriented
persistence. I also liked the idea of supporting JAX-B. I assume they
will have strong tooling support as well which could be a nice end-
user benefit.
Thoughts?
Jim
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