And EJB3 is heavily inspired of Hibernate. Really I wouldn't go the JDO way. By the way, JPA is going to be the official persistence specification.
On 4/5/06, Jonathan Harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 101questionjsf wrote: > > Currently, i'm using JDBC statements, and using Oracle db. But got a feeling > > these JDBC statements are going to be Oracle specific... Please help me > > confirm this is true? > > Very likely. Oracle's dialect of SQL is proprietary. > > > If using Hibernate, will it tie to Oracle db or it will be regardless of the > > backend db, it can just run in any db without any modification > > No, it won't tie you to Oracle if you use HQL as your query language, as it > is database-neutral. However, it will tie you to Hibernate! > > You might want to look at JDO, which is the current standard for using > databases (and other kinds of datastore) from Java. There are over a dozen > implementations of the JDO standard, some commercial and some free like > JPOX. As it's a standard, it's trivial to switch between products as long > as you don't use vendor extensions (and as JDO is a mature standard, you > probably won't need to). If you want to avoid being tied to one > vendor, standards are always the way to go. > > > Jon > -- > ..................................................................... > Dr Jonathan Harley . > . Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Zac Parkplatz Ltd . Office Telephone: 024 7633 1375 > www.parkplatz.net . Mobile: 079 4116 0423 > -- Alexandre Poitras Québec, Canada
