Hi Leszek, Thanks for the comments! Inline reply.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > I few thougths from me. > >> * Where do you use empire-db? or what keeps you from using empire-db? > In a software for my internal purposes - it's a web app which gathers and > analyses some data. > The db used is h2database - because the amount of data is rather small (a few > hundred MB). > >> * If you evaluated empire-db but switched to something else we would >> like to know what you are using. > On the opposite. I've used hibernate earlier and switched to empire-db > because I think it's simpler > and functionality can be used directly in java code without a lot of > annotations etc... > >> * How do you feel about the project? >> * Is there anything we could do better? > I've noticed big performance improvement in query time (a few times) when > I've switched from ad hoc queries to prepared queries > (according to advice in some of your posts). However DBRecord.open and > DBRecord.read method does not use prepared queries. > Select record by primary key is an ideal candidate to use prepared queries. > So performance improvement could be done incrementally better . Maybe you could create an issue related to those prepared statements? > >> * What should we put more effort into? > I can't see much to change in the core api. The functionality is rather > complete. > Probably much more can be done in "utilities" and integration of empire-db > with other frameworks and technologies. > You have developed a few helper "utilities" - the codegen, the maven plugin, > struts2 integration. > In example I filled an issue > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EMPIREDB-80 > to integrate empire-db with apache ddlutils to have incremental schema > synchronization. I'll try to have a look at that issue in the coming weeks. > >> * Would you be interested in contributing. For example helping with >> documentation, examples, blog posts, or adding functionality. > I've contributed code to the above issue, I can provide an example program > too, if needed. Example code is of course always welcome but maybe I can first have a look and let you know? Cheers, Francis > > Regards > Leszek > > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Francis De Brabandere <[email protected]> > Apparently from: > empire-db-user-return-316-leszekp=safe-mail....@incubator.apache.org > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Future of empire-db > Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:34:36 +0100 > >> Hello there. >> >> As empire-db is struggling a bit to grow a community, and we need a >> bigger community to graduate, we want to involve our users in the >> decision on where to go with the project. >> >> Below you'll find some questions and we would be delighted to hear >> your comments! >> >> * Where do you use empire-db? or what keeps you from using empire-db? >> * If you evaluated empire-db but switched to something else we would >> like to know what you are using. >> * How do you feel about the project? >> * Is there anything we could do better? >> * What should we put more effort into? >> * Would you be interested in contributing. For example helping with >> documentation, examples, blog posts, or adding functionality. >> >> Thanks, >> >> The empire-db team. >> >> -- our incubator report as reference below -- >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/January2011 >> >> Empire-db >> >> Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that >> allows developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application >> development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow >> highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of >> compile-time-safety and DBMS independence. >> >> Project development since the last report >> >> Last December we have finished and published release 2.0.7 that >> features some minor improvements and bug fixes. Currently we are >> working on release 2.1.0 with more significant improvements. >> >> Issues to address in the move towards graduation and community development >> >> After now being 2 and a half years in the incubator we have managed to >> successfully implement and establish the Apache development and >> release cycle, we have published several releases and we have received >> good feedback from users who are subscribed to the dev and user lists. >> >> However during all this time, we have still not managed to get >> ourselves known to a wider audience and to get a significant amount of >> public attention, most certainly due to the fact that have not managed >> to work on publicity as much as on code. Also our community currently >> consists of only 3 active committers that are regularly contributing >> to the project. >> >> For this reason questions about the future of the project and whether >> we will ever be able to graduate have been raised. While the remaining >> active committers are determined to continue their project commitment >> and to work towards graduation it is still unclear by which measures >> new committers can be won to join the project. >> >> Hence, for the coming months answering this question and establishing >> the corresponding measures should be our focus. One way of answering >> this question could be to move this discussion to the dev list in >> order to find out how our subscribers feel about the status of the >> project. Also it might make sense to combine the user and dev lists in >> order to prevent subscribers from missing information and getting them >> more involved in the project. >> >> -- >> http://www.somatik.be >> Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house. > -- http://www.somatik.be Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house.
