[OJB-developers] Re: next release

[Thomas M. <tho...@ho...>]

Hi Matthew,


Matthew Baird wrote:

> Hi... we're considering moving from Castor to ObjectBridge. 


What are your specific problems with Castor?


> We have over 200 mapped objects, we are *very* transaction 
> heavy. 



OK!

We run inside JBoss, so I was wondering what is the 
> estimate on the next revision to be released, 


The next revision will be released within the next week.

and when is 
> the full support for j2ee planned?
> 


We have already implemented several things to make J2EE integration 
smooth (JNDI lookup of Datasources, BMP support, using ClassLoader 
resource lookup instead of filesystem access).

But currently OJB does not provide JTA and JCA Integration.

There is already a JTA implementation for the PersistenceBroker API 
contributed by another JBOSS / OJB user. It's working but it's currently 
not part of the distribution. It also won't be included in the next 
release. If you like I can post you Armins's stuff!

Jesper is working on a proposal for a complete JCA integrated solution. 
We will take this as the base for further developments towards JCA / JTA.

But I can't give you any estimation when this will be finished.

We want to make OJB the definite O/R solution for JBOSS! That's why we 
take the JCA integration so serious.

best regards,

Thomas