[Objectbridge-jdo-dev] Hi from new list subscriber

[Michael V. <ja...@vo...>]

Hello objectbridge-jdo-dev'ers!

just subscribed to this list, and thought I would drop a note.  Got
mostly attracted by the
http://jakarta.apache.org/ojb/jdo/jdo-proposal.html page....  So how
are things, in regards to what's described there?

Even though I have gone through a (probably somewhat simpler than OJB)
persistence layer developed in-house; I am not sure if I can put in
significant development time myself at this point, simply because of
the time, other than little helper code e.g. some .jdo XML
unmarshalling, other helpers and tools, or something like that.

However, I have been involved with JDO since relatively early on, am
quite familiar with the spec. and API, and believe to have some notion
of the current landscape in terms of existing implementations and
stuff, and would be happy in assisting this project this way, if I
can.  What do you need most?   It may be a bit early for OJB JDO
testing? ;-)


May I ask some questions that popped through my mind?

* How widely used is the existing ODMG API-based OJB?
* How mature is it?  Used... in...

* SF vs. Jakarta... the jdo-proposal.html page on Jakarta still
encourages to subscribe to
obj...@li...... but there seem to be a
Jakarta hosted list(s) as well, so am I on the wrong mailing list
here?

* For general curiosity: How does one (OBJ) get onto Jakarta, anyway?

* Noticed "JDO prototype and sample application." for 0.9... so there
is working JDO-API compliant code out there, already?  Just curious,
because the jdo-proposal.html seems to propose a refactoring for a
2.0... far out in time?  Very roughly, what sort of timeframe do
people have in mind here?

Regards,
Michael