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Hi Java Developers,

Does anyone have opinions about the OpenEdit Framework using Apache OpenJPA for databases?

OEF already has a simple Hibernate plugin but it has some problems.

First major problem is that Hibernate uses static factory classes and that means we can only have one database connection per web application. This is no good since OpenEdit supports multiple catalogs per webapp. We expect that each catalog can be mapped to it's own database tables.

Second problem is that Hibernate depends on transactions to be opened and closed for each web request. In our objects we do not rollback very often. Even an incomplete transaction is usually better than not saving anything at all.

Here is a nice overview of OpenJPA. Am going to see if we can get it working this week.