FYI: below is my email exchange with David Blevins on integrating
Cayenne provider with OpenEJB by JavaOne.
Jeff, Bill - I was wondering where are we on the class enhancers and
orm.xml?
Andrus
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org>
> Date: April 12, 2006 12:13:39 PM GMT+04:00
> To: de..penejb.org
> Subject: Re: [openejb-dev] OpenEJB 3 and Cayenne JPA
> Reply-To: de..penejb.org
>
> Hi David,
>
> Let's do it!
>
> Currently a JPA EntityManager is a thin wrapper around Cayenne so
> it allows to use the JPA API, but underneath it only supports
> Cayenne mapping. EJB QL queries are yet unsupported. Jeff Genender
> and Bill Dudney are looking at class enhancers, annotations and the
> mapping. I'll check on cayenne-dev list where we stand on that.
>
> As far as container integration, we can start right away, as
> provider part is there. Here is provider M2 project info:
>
> http://objectstyle.org/confluence/display/CAY/JPA+Development+Setup
>
> I guess once we nail down the integration part, we can continue to
> work in parallel and get in as many features as possible.
>
> Andrus
>
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:51 PM, David Blevins wrote:
>> Hey Andrus,
>>
>> What's the status of the Cayenne JPA stuff? Are there any parts
>> implementing JPA interfaces which are more or less usable at the
>> moment?
>>
>> I'm completely insane of course, but I think if i work all night
>> and day for the next few weeks I can have something for people to
>> play around with by JavaOne. You up for the challenge?
>>
>> At the moment I'm poking at the start of some deployment code and
>> it's going quite well. By the weekend we should see some magic
>> there and I'll be looking line up some more integration stuff,
>> then I'll be working more on the 2.x container integration. So
>> there is like a week or two gap till I'd be looking for some JPA
>> functionality to integrate -- figured I'd shoot this off and see
>> if you might be able to get something JPA wise in Cayenne by then.
>>
>> -David
>
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