[Objectbridge-developers] AW: [Fwd: ObJectRelationalBridge]

[Mahler T. <tho...@it...>]

Hi Aurelije,

Thanks  for your interest,

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: ObJectRelationalBridge
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:48:54 -0700
> From: "Aurelije Zovko" <az...@ma...>
> Reply-To: <az...@ma...>
> To: <tho...@ho...>
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> My name is Aurelije Zovko. I am working for Maranti Networks, storage
> company. I have used TopLink in my previous project. I am 
> using CocoBase
> right know, and I am not satisfied . TopLink is to expensive. 
> So an open
> source mapping code will be an alternative.
> 

I really appreciate TOPLink. There is more than a decade of experience in it
and it's full of very good features. Of course it's really expensive. If
it's too expensive depends largely on your budget ;-)

> When do your relational bridge will be ready for commercial use?
> How stable is software?
> Did anyone used it in commercial development?
> 

Of course a release number like 0.5.x does not sound like a mature product.
But in my eyes OJB is quite stable and reliable. It's the only open source
O/R tool that is scalable (it has a concept similar to TOPLinks
ServerSession and RemoteSession). 
There are also several projects using it for production level applications.
See the OpenEMed project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmed/) as a
reference user.

On the other hand: OJB is still under development and a lot of things that
you can taken for granted with TOPLink are not finished for OJB.

My advice:
Build a technical prototype of your application that covers the persistence
needs and see if OJB fits your needs.

Feature requests and bug reports are always welcome !

best regards,

Thomas

> Regards,
> Aurelije
> 
> Aurelije Zovko
> Maranti Networks
> Principal Software Eng.
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> 
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