[Springframework-developer] Patch to support Hibernate3 - How to provide it?

[Oliver G. <oli...@gm...>]

Hi.

We would like to use Spring with Hibernate3 which is
currently under development.

In case you don't know: Hibernate3 is not (will not be) source-code
compatible with Hibernate2. The biggest difference
is the package renaming: net.sf.hibernate.* -> org.hibernate.*

They also changed some Exceptions from java.lang.Class constructor 
parameters to java.lang.String parameters.

This is caused by the fact that Hibernate3 isn't restricted to map only 
Java classes but can also map "dynamic-classes". So the identifier for a 
specific mapping changed from the java class to a string.

We developed a patch to Spring which is backward compatible so you can
use Spring with Hibernate2 or with Hibernate3.

To make this work we "mirrored" the org.springframework.orm.hibernate
package to org.springframework.orm.hibernate3. There was also the need
to change the two exception in the org.springframework.orm package.

We also mirrored the tests and all tests are ok.

We would like to provide a patch but we don't know what is the prefered
way to do this?


Thanks, Olli

--og