OJB C/S

[Ryan Clifton <ry...@weiderinet.com>]

Hello,

I have been evaluating OJB for use in our next application and have a couple questions that I hope someone can answer.  I've already read through the archives (at least those that matched my query) and saw some disappointing news.  However, I want to see if there may be a way around it.

Basically we have a very large database and run a large number of online transactions against it.  In the next version, we plan to 'roll-our-own' DB clustering for scalability reasons.  We like to be able to partition user records across multiple DB instances based upon a hashing algorithm.  The effect of which is to make a transparent layer to store data adhering to a common schema on different physical databases.  The business logic would be totally unaware that it's going to different places to get it's data.  If I write my own ConnectionFactory this would be pretty easy to do, however I'd really like to be able to use OJB so that we don't waste weeks of time writing O/R classes by hand.  From what I can tell, OJB doesn't really support what I want to do.. worse, it appears (from the list archives) that even the described client/server functionality doesn't work.  Since this is a production system with paying customers, should I abandon OJB and go for another solution?

Thanks,

Ryan Clifton
Systems Engineering Manager