Shindig JPA

[Ben Smith <be...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm looking into the Shindig Java code-base (looking good btw :) and,  
by way of familiarising myself with it, I'm playing around with the  
samples project, trying to configure it to use Hibernate and a MySQL  
database.

As you'd expect, this isn't working straight away but I'm using my,  
rather limited, skills to push through all the "could not get a field  
value by reflection getter of....." exceptions that I'm getting.

So, I have a number of questions:
1. Would you lie me to submit issues and patches for the bugs that I  
find in the JPA models or tests?
2. If I manage to get the Hibernate persistence layer to work, would  
you be interested in my submitting it for your approval? (I'm  
intending to try setting it up in it's own project to test injecting  
into Shindig, rather than directly forking it, but at the moment I'm  
just hacking away)
3. How well supported is the samples project? It looks like it could  
do with a few more tests but are model interface changes mirrored in  
the JPA implementations and are they functionally complete?

Anyway, good work with Shindig and I look forward to working with the  
project more closely!

Cheers,
Ben Smith
Product Manager / Architect, BBC Social Networking Services
H: ben@thesmith.co.uk
W: ben.smith@bbc.co.uk

Re: Shindig JPA

[Ben Smith <be...@gmail.com>]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for that, I'll hopefully start raising issues later this week.

Cheers!
Ben

On 5 Nov 2008, at 16:05, Ian Boston wrote:

> Ben,
> Hi, you will have noticed that the samples project is not 100%  
> complete, hence the reason why its not linked into the base pom and  
> build, but you are very welcome to help :), and submit patches, and  
> I will do my best to review them.
> More comments inline:
> On 5 Nov 2008, at 12:43, Ben Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking into the Shindig Java code-base (looking good btw :)  
>> and, by way of familiarising myself with it, I'm playing around  
>> with the samples project, trying to configure it to use Hibernate  
>> and a MySQL database.
>
> It was originally written with EclipseLink in mind and may use some  
> features that Hibernate does not support, especially on the  
> relationships. I have used Hibernate a lot in the past, and chose to  
> target EclipseLink due to a less than perfect experiance in  
> production.... however I may find exactly the same is true of  
> EclipseLink.
>
>
>>
>> As you'd expect, this isn't working straight away but I'm using my,  
>> rather limited, skills to push through all the "could not get a  
>> field value by reflection getter of....." exceptions that I'm  
>> getting.
>>
>> So, I have a number of questions:
>> 1. Would you lie me to submit issues and patches for the bugs that  
>> I find in the JPA models or tests?
>
> yes please
>
>> 2. If I manage to get the Hibernate persistence layer to work,  
>> would you be interested in my submitting it for your approval? (I'm  
>> intending to try setting it up in it's own project to test  
>> injecting into Shindig, rather than directly forking it, but at the  
>> moment I'm just hacking away)
>
> yes certainly, the aim would be to isolate the framework specific  
> code into boostrap classes if possible.
>
>> 3. How well supported is the samples project? It looks like it  
>> could do with a few more tests but are model interface changes  
>> mirrored in the JPA implementations and are they functionally  
>> complete?
>
> I want to support it as best I can. More tests are good, finishing  
> the functionality is also good.
>
> Ian
>
>>
>> Anyway, good work with Shindig and I look forward to working with  
>> the project more closely!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben Smith
>> Product Manager / Architect, BBC Social Networking Services
>> H: ben@thesmith.co.uk
>> W: ben.smith@bbc.co.uk
>

Re: Shindig JPA

[Ian Boston <ie...@tfd.co.uk>]

Ben,
Hi, you will have noticed that the samples project is not 100%  
complete, hence the reason why its not linked into the base pom and  
build, but you are very welcome to help :), and submit patches, and I  
will do my best to review them.
More comments inline:
On 5 Nov 2008, at 12:43, Ben Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking into the Shindig Java code-base (looking good btw :)  
> and, by way of familiarising myself with it, I'm playing around  
> with the samples project, trying to configure it to use Hibernate  
> and a MySQL database.

It was originally written with EclipseLink in mind and may use some  
features that Hibernate does not support, especially on the  
relationships. I have used Hibernate a lot in the past, and chose to  
target EclipseLink due to a less than perfect experiance in  
production.... however I may find exactly the same is true of  
EclipseLink.


>
> As you'd expect, this isn't working straight away but I'm using my,  
> rather limited, skills to push through all the "could not get a  
> field value by reflection getter of....." exceptions that I'm getting.
>
> So, I have a number of questions:
> 1. Would you lie me to submit issues and patches for the bugs that  
> I find in the JPA models or tests?

yes please

> 2. If I manage to get the Hibernate persistence layer to work,  
> would you be interested in my submitting it for your approval? (I'm  
> intending to try setting it up in it's own project to test  
> injecting into Shindig, rather than directly forking it, but at the  
> moment I'm just hacking away)

yes certainly, the aim would be to isolate the framework specific  
code into boostrap classes if possible.

> 3. How well supported is the samples project? It looks like it  
> could do with a few more tests but are model interface changes  
> mirrored in the JPA implementations and are they functionally  
> complete?

I want to support it as best I can. More tests are good, finishing  
the functionality is also good.

Ian

>
> Anyway, good work with Shindig and I look forward to working with  
> the project more closely!
>
> Cheers,
> Ben Smith
> Product Manager / Architect, BBC Social Networking Services
> H: ben@thesmith.co.uk
> W: ben.smith@bbc.co.uk