RE: [picocontainer-dev] Drop persistence-core?

Mauro Talevi wrote:
> Michael Rimov wrote:
>>>> Brilliant use of profiles, Watson ;-)
>>> However, how will you release? We need two different artifacts.
>> 
>> I haven't a clue :)
>> 
>> I mean, we could use two different poms with different modules, but
>> the problem there is that we actually need different JDK's set up,
>> and I can't see how to do that without additional configuration
>> steps involved for the developers. (Setting properties for JDK
>> homes, etc). 
>> 
>> Any thoughts on how to do this yet allow newbie developers still
>> easily get a build with their source?
> 
> It's not difficult to support multiple artifacts for
> different jdks, eg
> core-jdk5, core-jdk6, etc ... much similar to the way we produce eg
> picocontainer-tck from the core test code.

This time it is, since the Java runtime is not compatible. Therefore you would have to use explicitly different JDKs for the build. Unfortunately I could not find a standalone version of JDBC 4, that might have been used building with JDK 5.

> But I was taking a step back and having a critical look at the
> persistence-core.  I'm wondering whether it adds much value, both the
> jdbc support and the exception handling.
> 
> I personally, don't use any of it - in JDK1.5/JPA-land it's
> so easy to
> use tools like hibernate, that provide out-of-the-box other enterprise
> features ...
> 
> Wanted to sound out if anybody was using it in production
> systems.  If
> not, we could move it to an example/tutorial module (or move it to
> sandbox) but not release it. 

Cannot say, never used it.

- Jörg

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