[Xorm-devel] XORM major revisions

[Wes B. <we...@ca...>]

I'm thinking of switching XORM future development to have the following 
dependencies:

* Add requirement for JDK 1.5 and clean up code in ways this allows
* Add requirement for JDO 2.0, now that there is an API JAR available.  
Most of the 2.0 methods would be initially non-functional, but some key 
ones, like PersistenceManager.newInstance(), would replace XORM 
proprietary methods where applicable.
* Include the POJQ project for compilable queries.  This would replace 
the experimental CodeQuery framework in XORM today, and remove the need 
for BCEL.

These changes should all be backward compatible for users, provided that 
they recompile against the JDO2 jar (which alters the argument types and 
return types of some methods).

I don't see XORM being a particularly active project, or hoping to 
surpass much larger open source projects like JPOX (the JDO 2.0 
reference implementation) in terms of overall implementation of the JDO 
spec, but this allows us to align its usage with the features that have 
been standardized in JDO 2 and maintain focus on implementing those 
features which we feel are most important and applicable to our 
projects, or those that we're interesting in looking at from an 
experimental point of view.

Thoughts?

Wes