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Oracle Open Sources TopLink Java ORM

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the have-at-it dept.

Eric^2 writes "Oracle announced on Tuesday that TopLink will now be open source and a full-fledged Eclipse project. TopLink is an object-persistence layer for Java that maps Java objects to a relational database."

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  1. Use the Java Persistence API by JavaSavant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While I applaud Oracle's move - I still don't know why any developer would consciously choose a single persistence solution and code to it when the Java Persistence API (JPA) standardizes the whole mess into a single, platform portable specification. Case in point - with my employers latest enterprise application, we decided to migrate to a true EE5 stack over some convoluted analgum of Spring/Hibernate/ActiveMQ/Acegi/XFire/Kitchen Sink, and originally pursued Glassfish as our container. After months of some successes and a lot of pain with some of Glassfish's less mature features and bugs, we decided to give JBoss 4.0.5 a run. Because we coded our persistence to JPA and not specifically to Hibernate or Toplink, we were able to pretty much effortlessly migrate between platforms, with the only real work being required when setting up container resources in each container (JMS Destinations, Connection Pools, et. al.). Glassfish uses TL as its underlying persistence implementation, and JBoss uses Hibernate. It was all the same to us.