Hi, I had started working on this issue. As Hibernate is LGPL we cannot use this in our Apache repo. I had discussed with Chiradeep and Kelven.
Am looking at replace Hibernate with Spring Framework simpleJDBCTemplate. The Spring Framework is released under version 2.0 of the Apache License http://www.springsource.org/spring-framework Thanks Rajesh Battala > -----Original Message----- > From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:45 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Hibernate > > The ORM in the AWS module is 90% used by S3. > The dependency is mostly abstracted by a DAO layer; there is another > dependency on transactions. I believe Rajesh B is already working on this > aspect and there is a bug open on it. > > -- > Chiradeep > > On Jun 27, 2012, at 21:52, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:45 AM, Sheng Liang <sheng.li...@citrix.com> > wrote: > > > >>> In short, I see three options (please comment if you see more) 1. Rip out > hibernate and replace with some other ORM 2. Make the AWS API bits an > optional non-default part of the build. > >> 3. Declare that hibernate is a system requirement for CloudStack > >> > >> I prefer option #1. It is the cleanest. I don't think it will be very > >> difficult to > rip out Hibernate. > >> > >> Sheng > > > > > > > > That is my personal inclination as well, though I am somewhat reticent to > say so, since I am not doing any of the work to rip and replace. At the same > time choice of ORM is a big issue. I know, for instance that Alex was looking > into finding another ORM for the rest of CloudStack. When I initially looked > at > the Hibernate issue, Prachi told me she thought it was about 2 weeks worth > of work. > > > > > > --David
