hibernate投入jboss怀抱

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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!