We discussed some other ways to deal with Dialects in the past: http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/hibernate-dev/2008-September/003323.html
I still like Option 3 -- make the Dialect available with the JDBC driver distribution but I don't know of anyone doing this today. -CB On 04/16/2010 12:38 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote: > In terms of actually getting it included? Well just passing the > testsuite is of course a first step. > > Beyond that though I am a little leery of adding new dialects "just > because someone contributed (dumped) it". The reasoning is quite > simple. We have quite a bit of this type of "integration code" in > Hibernate already that goes unmaintained for long spurts of time. And > truth be told a lot of it deals with DB2 variants and WebSphere which of > course makes me a little even more leery here. So for this aspect we > would need you (or someone) to take ownership of this code. If you > agree to that we can discuss those particulars off list. > > Also realize that the contributions *must* be LGPL. We have had issues > with that previously with regards to IBM employees and IBM's legal teams > from LGPL FUD. To that end, y'all must sign a contributor agreement > accepting the terms of LGPL and agreeing to your contributions being > made publicly available under its terms. > > Also, how many Hibernate users are actually using solidDB? > > > On 04/16/2010 10:48 AM, Niall DOWNEY wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> thanks for the info. Is it just a case of checking out the latest Test >> Suite code from CVS and running what are probably JUnit tests ?. Is there >> anything else we need to do or be aware of ?. >> >> Regards, >> >> Niall >> >> IBM Ireland Information Services Limited registered in Ireland with number >> 97537. Registered office: Oldbrook House, 24-32 Pembroke Road, >> Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 >> >> >> >> Chris Bredesen >> <cbrede...@redhat >> .com> >> To >> Sent by: hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> hibernate-dev-bou cc >> n...@lists.jboss. >> org Subject >> Re: [hibernate-dev] solidDB >> Hibernate dialect ? >> 16/04/2010 16:25 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 04/15/2010 07:39 AM, Niall DOWNEY wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> I work for IBM and we are investigating adding our solidDB dialect to the >>> existing set in Hibernate. Can someone tell me how we go about this and >> who >>> should we talk to ?. >>> >>> Apologies if this is off-topic but it was suggested in the "Hibernate >>> Users" forum that I try posting here. >> >> I'd start by filing a JIRA against Hibernate Core: >> >> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/ >> >> Attach your Dialect to the issue. Run the test suite against your >> dialect and learn what works and what doesn't. The best thing we can do >> for users of a Dialect is set expectations about known issues. >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> Chris (who has little/no say in what gets included, just trying to help) >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
