[Hibernate] Re: Details of hibernate provider for OsUser

[Patrick L. <pli...@ci...>]

Joel,
I believe that Justin Stepka (correct me if I'm wrong, Justin) has written a
Hibernate PropertySet implementation.

-Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Rosi-Schwartz" <Joe...@Et...>
To: <ope...@li...>; "hibernate
list" <hib...@li...>
Cc: "Patrick Lightbody" <pli...@ci...>; "Gavin King"
<ga...@ap...>; "Mike Cannon-Brookes" <mi...@at...>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 2:01 PM
Subject: Details of hibernate provider for OsUser


> I have been looking over the existing OsUser providers and considering
> the best approach for creating a hibernate provider. There are a two
> issues I would like to have some feedback on.
>
> First off I think that it will be worth the effort to keep it as
> architecturally generic as possible. Towards that end I am considering
> using the properties that are passed into the Provider's init() to
> retrieve a JNDI name for the SessionFactory. Is this sufficiently
> generic for most user's or does it have to be even more flexible?
>
> Second, I am a bit concerned at the usage of the PropertySetManager for
> storing the user's profile.  My first consideration is that it does not
> fit neatly into the architecture of the applications that I plan to use
> this for. I could get over that one and would not mind terribly creating
> two version; one that used the PropertSetManager and one that stored the
> data directly in my application's objects. What I have a hard time
> buying into is the extra work to create the Hibernate Propertyset
> implementation. If I am not mistaken Gavin expressed willingness to do
> that some time back if someone else did...  Did that ever get done? If
> not is someone willing to bite off that part of this task?
>
> - joel