Hi, I would love to hear some additional feedback (also from within the TomEE PMC)
Any thoughts on JPA in TomEE @ Mark, Markus, David, JL or Jon? Gruß Richard On 2025/09/26 08:29:25 Richard Zowalla 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
