Why is this being released as a separate project, instead of being bundled up with Cassandra? Is it not a part of Cassandra?
2012/11/19 John Sanda <john.sa...@gmail.com> > Fantastic! As for the object mapping API, has there been any > discussion/consideration of http://www.hibernate.org/subprojects/ogm.html? > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>wrote: > >> Everyone, >> >> We've just open-sourced a new Java driver we have been working on here at >> DataStax. This driver is CQL3 only and is built to use the new binary >> protocol >> that will be introduced with Cassandra 1.2. It will thus only work with >> Cassandra 1.2 onwards. Currently, it means that testing it requires >> 1.2.0-beta2. This is also alpha software at this point. You are welcome >> to try >> and play with it and we would very much welcome feedback, but be sure that >> break, it will. The driver is accessible at: >> http://github.com/datastax/java-driver >> >> Today we're open-sourcing the core part of this driver. This main goal of >> this >> core module is to handle connections to the Cassandra cluster with all the >> features that one would expect. The currently supported features are: >> - Asynchronous: the driver uses the new CQL binary protocol asynchronous >> capabilities. >> - Nodes discovery. >> - Configurable load balancing/routing. >> - Transparent fail-over. >> - C* tracing handling. >> - Convenient schema access. >> - Configurable retry policy. >> >> This core module provides a simple low-level API (that works directly with >> query strings). We plan to release a higher-level, thin object mapping API >> based on top of this core shortly. >> >> Please refer to the project README for more information. >> >> -- >> The DataStax Team >> > > > > -- > > - John >
