Re: [opennms-devel] Firebird DB support

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:40 -0500, David Hustace wrote:
>
> Thank you for your enthusiasm about OpenNMS and your willingness to  
> donate precious time.  As far as adding support for Firebird, I would  
> wait for the commits and proceedings from this week's DevJam where  
> you will see our commitment to moving to Hibernate as an ORM.

Does this mean the dependency of PostgreSQL will go away? Any idea when
will the commits take place?

>   Even  
> though the focus of this conference is improving the Web MVC  
> framework and various view technologies, much work in the domain  
> model is required.  Hibernate is playing a major role and is helping  
> us tremendously.  I see Hibernate has support for Firebird.  You may  
> want to investigate any potential issues with Hibernate and Firebird,  
> too.

I will look into Hibernate and Firebird further.

> After this week, brozow and the OGP will be more than happy to get  
> more help migrating the entire domain model, if you want to jump in  
> drop them a note (careful, the water is a bit chilly (grin)).

Hoping to get a version of OpenNMS going something this weekend. At
least for testing and experimenting.

> > Are there any Java bindings or is it straight JDBC from there? Aside
> > from stored procs, and etc.
> 
> The stored procs will probably need to go.  I haven't given this a  
> lot of thought, though.  We have added our stored procedures to HSQL  
> (easy because they are Java) in our JUnit tests and could do the same  
> of other databases, but this would tie us down to DBs that support  
> this functionality.  Is that an issue?  I don't know, yet.

Well if it's going to be bound to db's at any point. I do recommend
binding to those that support standards. Which includes things like
store procs and etc.

> > Thanks, and be kind I am an OpenNMS newb and have not spent much time
> > with the sources yet. This weekend, I plan to get somewhat intimate.
> > Just after my first date with OpenNMS. :)
> 
> I would Eclipse IDE as a chaperon on your first date (grin).

I am netbeaner :)

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com



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