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Craig Russell is the point person at Sun for the development of the specs
for JDO. There are some Database Vendors that are listed that support the
initiative, I think it will be in everyone's interest to be involved in the
process. See the list at following URL
http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/communityprocess/jsr/jsr_012_dataobj.html

all the best
always
schneur

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Russell" <Craig.Russell@Sun.com>
To: "Schneur Feigelstock" <schneur@telus.net>
Cc: <craig.russell@eng.sun.com>; <doug@barryandassociates.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: JDO


> Hi Schneur,
>
> Thanks for the references.  I'll take a look at them.
>
> If you have contacts for these folks, I'd appreciate it if you would let
> them know about JDO, as it is not a database technology per se, but an
> interface technology that any database could implement.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig
>
> Schneur Feigelstock wrote:
> >
> > You might be interested in the following efforts in Java based OODBMS
called
> > Ozone http://www.ozone-db.org/ and Stored Objects http://www.jdbms.org/.
> > These databases are written in Java for Java persistence, they are open
> > source. There is a Java persistence mapping tool called Castor from
Exolab
> > by exoffice http://castor.exolab.org/ . it is a open source project to
> > provide
> > persistence to Java with existing technologies, it can be used
primarily, as
> > a repository for XML persistence in Java Development. It works very well
> > with the
> > PostgreSQL Open source Object relational Database.
> > http://www.postgresql.org/. The Intalio project from Exoffice is an open
> > source OO Platform with transaction monitoring, much like a non
proprietary
> > format of BEA Weblogic server.  www.exoffice.com/intalio.xml.
> >
> >  I hope the above  information makes your efforts in drafting the specs
> > easier.
> > While the Database vendors listed the JDO effort are the more popular
> > Database players, they are far less advanced in Java implementation then
> > the projects listed above. They are based on OO technology or Relational
> > technology with implementations and  adjustments to support Java, while
the
> > above products are built and design mainly for the support of Java
design.
> >
> > always
> >
> > Schneur
>
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