>From: "Mike Kienenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I haven't really done anything with JPA yet, but there's both an > OpenJPA project as well as Cayenne in the Incubator. Both support > (or are in the process of implementing support for) JPA. >
Outstanding, I keep an eye on those too. > On 9/22/06, Gary VanMatre wrote: > > >From: "Mike Kienenberger" > > > > > > On 9/22/06, Gary VanMatre wrote: > > > > I've not hooked this into a web app yet. Please share any > > > > thoughts/ideas > you > > > might have on this project. > > > > > > If you're talking about Toplink, I last evaluated it a couple years > > > ago. "Buggy closed-source" was the evaluation at that time. > > > > I think that's confusing allot of people. Oracle delivered the RI for the > > new > Java Persistence Architecture (JPA). The JPA RI is rooted in Oracles Toplink > product but it's based on the new API that requires Java 1.5. The key to this > new JPA API is that it is an "API" that you plug-in your own provider. If you > decide you would rather use JBOSS, or the new Apache JPA provider, it > shouldn't > require code refactoring. > > > > To make matters more confusing, Oracle has delivered a technology preview > > of > EJB 3 in their 10.1.3 application server which is J2EE 1.4. I think this is > actually a great move but the confusing part is that it's not 100% pure to > the > JPA API. You can only use it in container where Oracle's JPA RI can be used > out > of container. I'm most interested in the out of container use of JPA. > > > > That's what this little project is in the shale sandbox > (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/shale/sandbox/shale-clay-jpa/). > > > > Gary > >
