My vote would actually be EclipseLink, not Hibernate :) I've used both and greatly prefer it at scale, especially in how it performs with its cache. However, as long as there continues to be a TomEE distribution with Eclipselink in it, tis a mute point what the default is IMHO.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM Evaldo Junior <[email protected]> wrote: > + 1 vote to use Hibernate insted of Open Jpa. > I have never used OpenJpa. > I have been using Hibernate since 2.006. > > > Evaldo Junior > > Em sex, 26 de set de 2025 10:18, Thomas Andraschko < > [email protected]> escreveu: > > > +1 for hibernate + hibernate for Jakarta data > > > > Daniel Dias Dos Santos <[email protected]> schrieb am > Fr., > > 26. Sept. 2025, 14:34: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I vote +1 to make Hibernate the default in TomEE. > > > > > > Honestly, I have never used OpenJPA. > > > > > > And most developers use Hibernate. > > > > > > Since it is already under the Apache license, I believe it would be a > > huge > > > gain for the project, as it has a strong community around it and is > > already > > > implementing Jakarta Data. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 05:29 Richard Zowalla <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I’d like to start a discussion about the future of OpenJPA in TomEE, > > > > specifically whether it’s time to consider replacing it with > Hibernate. > > > > > > > > Hibernate 7 is now ASLv2 licensed, fully implements the latest spec > > > > features, and already supports Jakarta Data for EE 11. This puts it > in > > a > > > > strong position to meet our needs moving forward, especially as we > look > > > > toward TomEE 11. > > > > > > > > By contrast, OpenJPA has struggled to keep up, and realistically we > > don’t > > > > appear to have enough development resources to build and maintain an > > > > ASF-only implementation of Jakarta Data. In fact, we made a similar > > > > decision when we gave up the ASF-only spec implementations some time > > ago. > > > > > > > > Of course, anyone who prefers to stay with OpenJPA can still swap it > > in, > > > > but from my perspective, I believe we should seriously consider > whether > > > > Hibernate should become the default going forward. > > > > > > > > I’d like to hear your thoughts, both on the practical implications > for > > > > TomEE and the overall direction we should take. > > > > > > > > Gruß > > > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > -- Jonathan | [email protected] Pessimists, see a jar as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
