Hi Geert, We will take a look at the crashes.
But since luckily it doesn't crash on Linux, the JDBC issues can still be reproduced per CAY-2574 (and they are more essential for Cayenne support). So no need to wait for us on the crash report :) Thanks, Andrus > On May 2, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Geert B. Clemmensen <geert.clemmen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello Andrus, > > Thank you for getting back to us. > >> FB crashes a lot on MacOS > > Huhm, what version of FrontBase and MacOS are we talking about? FrontBase is > in 24x7 use on MacOS also in mission critical systems and is never crashing. > I’m not sure what is going on, but if we can get a reproducible case, we will > of course investigate. Start FrontBase with the -logSQL option, reproduce the > crash(es) and make a compressed copy of the database directory > (/Library/FrontBase/Databases/<database name>.fb). Send the compressed file > to ftp.frontbase.com. > > Once the crash(es) situation is “fixed”, we can take a look at the JDBC > issues. > > Regards, > Geert B. Clemmensen > FrontBase, Inc. > >> On May 2, 2019, at 9:36 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: >> >> Hi Sven and FB support! >> >> As the subject says, this is about supporting FrontBase DB (further referred >> to as "FB") in Apache Cayenne. I cc'd Cayenne dev list to keep the community >> in the loop. >> >> Some background.. Due to many people in the Cayenne community coming from >> Apple WebObjects technology, Cayenne is probably the only ORM (outside WO) >> with explicit support for FB. However for a long time now we had various >> problems running our test suite against FB, and we even made a move to >> deprecate and remove Cayenne FrontBaseAdapter [1] (now reversed). >> >> Recently I had an f2f meeting with FB developers and users during a >> WebObjects event in Frankfurt, and now I know for sure there's still a >> community around it. So it makes sense to continue supporting the adapter. >> However we need to address a number of issues for it to work smoothly. So we >> took a closer look at what fails. The first thing we ran into was that FB >> crashes a lot on MacOS. We solved this by wrapping it in a Docker container >> (effectively running it on Linux), so this is no longer a problem for us. >> >> However we still can't run the Cayenne test suite due to a number of issues. >> We documented the initial blockers here [2], all related to the FB JDBC >> driver. >> >> @FB support: can you help us with those? We can continue this discussion >> going in Apache Cayenne Jira, but feel free to post to this list as well. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrus Adamchik >> >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-2525 >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-2574 >> >
