If the decision factor was based on not being a Sun competitor, then the
first choice would be JPOX.

...lobbing was key.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Matthew Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Envoyé : jeudi 20 mars 2008 17:58
À : jdo-dev@db.apache.org
Objet : Re: [VOTE] Release Apache JDO 2.1

The JPA 1.0 RI was TopLink Essentials from Oracle.  Sun has no JPA 
implementation, really.  I suppose you could say that it's OpenJPA, but 
that's really Apache's, from BEA, which is, oh yeah, now Oracle.  Harumph.

Joerg von Frantzius wrote:
> It was Red Hat who bought JBoss, and so Hibernate. Maybe for some reason 
> Sun wants the RI rather to come from Oracle than from Red Hat?
> Uhm, or where did the JPA RI come from so far?
> 
> David Jordan schrieb:
>>
>> +1 on the release...
>>
>> I was not happy to see the following bad news...
>>
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20690454
9 
>>
>>
>> Sun does not seem to make any sense these days. They have sponsored 
>> the best API, JDO, for years.
>> Then they let the EJB folks create JPA, which they tried to get to 
>> subsume JDO.
>> Now they go with TopLink, an Oracle product, right after they have 
>> bought JBoss?
>> It just makes no sense.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Michelle Caisse wrote:
>>
>>> This vote is to release the Apache JDO 2.1 specification, TCK, and 
>>> API (both legacy and current versions) with the projects that they 
>>> depend on: enhancer, model, and util.
>>>
>>> [+1] Release JDO 2.1 specification, api, tck, enhancer, model, and util
>>> [0] Don't care
>>> [-1] Don't releaseJDO 2.1 specification, api, tck, enhancer, model, 
>>> and util because:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The specification is available at 
>>> http://db.apache.org/jdo/specifications.html. The TCK can be tested 
>>> from the staging area, 
>>> http://people.apache.org/~mcaisse/jdo2.1-rc2/dist. Please follow the 
>>> directions at http://wiki.apache.org/jdo/ReleaseTesting2dot1 for 
>>> downloading and testing. It would be useful if you would record the 
>>> results of your testing there.
>>>
>>> Please test and vote. Voting will close at noon PDT Monday, March 24.
>>>
>>> -- Michelle
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 


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