Hibernate投入JBoss怀抱

今天一大早，“那个叫TSS的大泥潭”已经开了锅，而故事的焦点一如既往地是JBoss。JBoss的首席体系结构师Bill Burke宣布：著名的O/R映射框架Hibernate正式加入了JBoss家族，Hibernate的主要作者Gavin King成为JBoss Group的成员。

Bill Burke在一封公开信中说，JBoss一直在寻找替代CMP entity bean的持久化解决方案，而基于POJO和AOP的Hibernate是他们梦寐以求的。他表示，Hibernate将成为JBoss最主要的持久化基础设施。

随后，Gavin King也发表了一封公开信。他在信中表示，Hibernate过去只是作者业余时间的作品，加入JBoss之后，“专业Open Source”的运作方式将使Hibernate得到更好的发展。由于受到JBoss的垂青，Hibernate甚至有希望成为J2EE应用程序持久化解决方案的事实标准。另外，Gavin King承诺：在提供更优质的软件和收费服务的同时，Hibernate不会停止提供免费文档，也不会绑定在JBoss上。

下面是Gavin King列出的此次合并的意义。此事件全文请看：http://www.theserverside.com/home/thread.jsp?thread_id=21482

What this means for Hibernate users

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* more resources for Hibernate development

* able to buy professional training / commercial support

* assurance that the Hibernate project continues to exist and grow

What the means for the Hibernate team

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* a chance to make some money :)

* Gavin gets his life back (maybe)

* no longer have to beg and scrounge for money for things like domains

What this means for the Hibernate project

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* more developers

* Hibernate will be distributed with JBoss application server

* lots more users

* an easier "sell" to management types

* we get a marketing team!

What this means for the JBoss project

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* JBoss will use Hibernate as backbone of CMP layer

* Hibernate will complement JBoss AOP, being a POJO-oriented persistence layer

What this means for JBoss Group

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* JBoss gets a great persistence engine!

* lends credibility to jboss.org as an umbrella for more than just the appserver project

* JBoss is able to sell Hibernate training and support

What it does NOT mean

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* Hibernate will not become dependent upon JBoss! It is a central goal of the project to remain platform independant!

* you will not have to start paying for documentation

* we will not stop giving great support in the forums

* Hibernate will not be "swallowed" into the JBoss project; it remains a seperate project, now affiliated with jboss.org and supported by JBoss Group

* our central goals do not change: we remain committed to building the killer ORM implementation for Java!