A
couple of
months ago,
Ola Bini coined the idea of
ActiveHibernate as
an extra
option when running Rails on
JRuby (
complementary to ActiveRecord-JDBC).
After some debug
sessions through the Hibernate and JRuby code I have
convinced myself that this is
indeed a
nice and feasable project
to start (or try to, at least). As
Ola mentioned there are
two parts to this:
- Configure/tweak Hibernate to let it work directly with the org.jruby.RubyObject class. I'm already impressed by the clean internal design of the Hibernate code, and the possibility to plug in custom implementations of Hibernate interfaces through the hbm.xml mapping files.
- Provide a Rubyish interface to the Hibernate configuration and functionality, following the fine Ruby on Rails tradition.
Point one seems the hardest to me, as I would like to keep the number of changes to org.hibernate (and org.jruby) code very low. None if possible (?). For the second point, ActiveRecord, Grails' O/R mapper (GORM) and Hibernate Annotations can serve as examples to learn from. I'm also looking forward to IronRuby to see if it could be married to NHibernate in a similar way.
As soon as I have something up and running I'll post the code to SourceForge, or RubyForge, or ... What would be the most appropriate hosting site for this kind of project?
1 comment:
Well If you want to host it somewhere there's already other related JRuby projects, there's the jruby-extras project. It's kindof a "nursery" for JRuby-related projects to help them get off the ground. The intention is that they can share a repository with other folks working on AR-JDBC and similar JRuby projects, and eventually graduate as a free-standing project.
Otherwise, I'd say SF, Google Code, or Java.NET are good options, but SF and Google Code may be the only ones that would accept a project just starting out.
I'd also recommend hacking a bit on your own, getting something primitive working, and then using that to seed your project. That will inspire others to join you.
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