Besides being not as standards compliant as one would wish them to be, the Oracle thin drivers have always been working like a breeze for me.
Most of the people that would be willing to pay for JBoss support will be exactly those who are using Oracle. As you dig deeper into the database-related issues, you will notice, that you need to handle proprietary APIs and extensions not only with Oracle (you already do it in the type mapping). The main reason for this is that in a project that has to handle large amounts of data all the performance features offered by the database have to be exploited in the utmost way. And this cannot (yet) be accomplished through a generic interface. That's of course very inconvenient because not all of the JBoss code will compile always and everywhere anymore. To get it done in a orderely fashion, you will need a kind of plugin interface sooner or later. Maybe one could do something like the optional tasks in ant. If you copy your Oracle classes12.zip into an "cmp/optional" directory, the Oracle extensions will be compiled in, otherwise you only get the vanilla support (for instance, no or only half-working (C)LOBs). I guess it's like writing a 3D gaming engine. You have to detect what the graphics card supports, use the features that are available (otherwise your users will complain about the performance) and gracefule degradate, if they are missing. Georg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sacha Labourey Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 08:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] CMP2.0 and CLOB: same as JAWS Hello Dain, > Besides Oracle's drivers being a crap, for sure, yes. > the CLOB and all SQL 99 types > could use improvement. Supposedly Oracle's new 9.0.2 drivers fix most > of these problems. Fixing general Object persistence is the first > think Great. > I will be working on after I finish the docs (this week), so I will > look at this then. I am even planing on putting a hack in just for > Oracle's BLOB problems, so I can also put one in for CLOBS. Normally > I wouldn't put a hack in for a vendor but Oracle it to huge. The flag > of this option will be some thing <oracle-sucks-and-i-use-it>. =) OK, if you need some testing (or more accurate details on the problems I found), just tell me: I have a CMP and its associated Oracle DB that are already ready for testing. Cheers, Sacha _______________________________________________________________ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that's a super model! Visit http://clustering.foundries.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development _______________________________________________________________ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that's a super model! Visit http://clustering.foundries.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
