What follows is the official proposal for OpenJPA. The unofficial
version can be found here
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenJPAProposal
Please vote on acceptance of this proposal. The vote will run 1
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OpenJPA Project Proposal
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OpenJPA will be an ASL-licensed implementation of the Java Persistence
API (JPA) which is defined as part of JSR-220.
Rationale
=========
We think that Open JPA is something that will benefit from wide
collaboration, being able to build a community of developers and
committers that outlive the founders, and that will be embraced by
other
Apache efforts, such as the Geronimo project as part of an EJB 3.0
container. Given the existing momentum forming behind JPA even at this
early stage, we are confident that an industrial-grade ASL
implementation of JSR220 will attract a diverse community.
Criteria
Meritocracy
===========
The Open JPA committers recognize the desirability of building
software
as a meritocracy and look forward to growing a healthy community of
developers to enhance the JPA APIs.
Community
=========
The proposed committer community is includes members of the BEA JPA
team
and several individuals from the Apache community.
Core Developers
===============
Fourteen of the initial committers are BEA employees. One of those
is a
committer on the Apache JDO project. We anticipate that five of these
fourteen will be involved in the core code development, and the other
nine will be involved in documentation and ongoing QA for the project.
Three of the initial committers are committers on the Geronimo
project.
Two are IBM employees involved in the WebSphere product team. One is
from Intel.
Alignment
=========
Open JPA will be a candidate for use in Geronimo as the default JPA
implementation. Other projects that have general-purpose JPA needs may
be users of the Open JPA project.
Open JPA has some level of alignment with the Apache DB project. In
particular, the Open JPA codebase already includes support for Derby
databases.
JPA is for use in any Java application, not just J2EE. Therefore, any
application that needs to do data persistence in the object/relational
style (including any application that currently uses Hibernate) will
benefit from Open JPA.
License
=======
The existing codebase is owned by BEA and is subject to a proprietary
license. The applicable code will be relicensed under the Apache
Software License 2.0.
Avoiding the Warning Signs
==========================
Orphaned products
-----------------
Open JPA is a derivative of the basis of the BEA WebLogic Server (WLS)
EJB3 JPA implementation, and so is an important piece of the BEA
code base.
As this is a very eagerly anticipated specification for the Java
community, we expect that this project will continue to grow and
develop
within its own community, and be embraced by other open source
projects
(such as Geronimo) as well.
Inexperience with open source
-----------------------------
The authors of the existing code (who will be part of the initial
committer list) have experience with open source development
already, in
both professional and personal contexts. Examples: serp ([WWW]
http://serp.sourceforge.net) (used in Kodo currently), sqlline and
jline
([WWW] http://sqlline.sourceforge.net and [WWW]
http://jline.sourceforge.net) (used by the Kodo development team, and
used by the Apache JDO team), Growl ([WWW] http://growl.info).
Four of the initial committers have extensive experience within the
Geronimo project, among other open-source projects.
Homogeneous developers
----------------------
The members of the initial committer list have been working in a
distributed, multi-national, asynchronous environment for the last
five
years, while working at SolarMetric. We had a team of up to 7 people
working from 6 different locations over the course of the last five
years.
Reliance on Salaried Developers
-------------------------------
Most of the developers are paid by their employer to contribute to
this
project, but given the anticipation from the Java community for the a
JPA implementation and the committers' sense of ownership for the
code,
the project would continue without issue if no salaried developers
contributed to the project.
No ties to other Apache products
--------------------------------
Open JPA will likely be used by Geronimo, requires some Apache
products
(regexp, commons collections, commons lang, commons pool), and
supports
Apache commons logging.
A fascination with the Apache brand
-----------------------------------
We think that Open JPA is something that will benefit from wide
collaboration, being able to build a community of developers and
committers that outlive the founders, and that will be embraced by
other
Apache efforts, such as the Geronimo project.
Scope of Subprojects
=====================
No subprojects proposed.
Initial Source
==============
BEA Systems, Inc. will contribute the initial core source code for
implementing JPA.
ASF Resources to be Created
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Mailing lists
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* open-jpa-dev@
* open-jpa-commits@
* open-jpa-ppmc@ (with moderated subscriptions)
* open-jpa-user@
SVN Repository
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[WWW] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/open-jpa
JIRA
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Open-JPA (OPEN-JPA)
Initial Committers
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- Abe White (awhite at bea dot com)
- Marc Prud'hommeaux (mprudhom at bea dot com)
- Patrick Linskey (plinskey at bea dot com)
- Pinaki Poddar (pinaki dot poddar at bea dot com)
- Steve Kim (stkim at bea dot com)
- Seetharam Param (sparam at bea dot com)
- Reena Mathew (rmathew at bea dot com)
- Jacob Thomas (jthomas at bea dot com)
- Ajay Prabhu (aprabhu at bea dot com)
- Sathish Santhanam (sathish at bea dot com)
- Maruthi Nuthikattu (maruthi at bea dot com)
- Anurag Bahl (abahl at bea dot com)
- Mihir Kulkarni (mihirk at bea dot com)
- Srinivasa Segu (srinivasa dot segu at bea dot com)
- Greg Campbell (gcamp at yjsinc dot com)
- Eric Lindauer (e_lindauer at yahoo dot com)
- Gianny Damour (gianny dot damour at optusnet dot com dot au)
- Matt Hogstrom (matt at hogstrom dot org)
- David Jencks (djencks at apache dot org)
- Kevin Sutter (kwsutter at gmail dot com)
- David Wisneski (wisneskid at gmail dot com)
- Geir Magnusson Jr (geirm at apache dot org)
- Craig Russell (clr at apache dot org)
Sponsor
=======
We kindly request the Incubator PMC to accept sponsorship for this
proposal.
Champion
========
Geir Magnusson, Jr. (geirm at apache dot org)
Mentors
=======
- Eddie O'Neil (ekoneil at apache dot org)
- Brian McAllister (brianm at apache dot org)
- Geir Magnusson, Jr. (geirm at apache dot org)
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