Re: JDBC 4 support

Internally Hibernate needs very little.

I'd like to take advantage of Connection#createBlob,
Connection#createClob and Connection#createNClob (we do not really offer
built in support for the new SQLXML type, so we wont be binding to
Connection#createSQLXML(), etc, though of course users might want to as
an extension).

I'd like to be able to leverage the new exception hierarchy.

For everything else, its really just a curiosity about what the user can
reasonably expect in terms of portability.


On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:37 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> So what functionality of JDBC4 do you need/want for hibernate ?
>
> Dave
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Steve Ebersole <steve@hibernate.org>
> wrote:
>         Thanks for the reply.  Its more of a general question.
>
>         I am looking at adding JDBC4 (JDK1.6) support to Hibernate.
>          So the
>         question came up about whether to drop JDBC3 support or
>         whether to
>         support both JDBC3 and JDBC4 simultaneously.  Moving to JDBC4
>         exclusively is largely a function of how well we thought
>         JDBC4/JDK1.6 is
>         supported both in the various environments as well by the
>         various JDBC
>         drivers.
>
>         Sun's JDK 1.5 is nearing the end of its EOL transition and set
>         to reach
>         ESOL Oct 31.  So in the ideal world (since the release I am
>         targeting
>         here is November) we would simply drop support for it...
>
>
>         On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:07 -0400, Kris Jurka wrote:
>         >
>         > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>         >
>         > > The download page[1] still lists JDBC 4 support as
>         "limited" saying that
>         > > "the majority of new methods are stubbed out".  Is that
>         really still the
>         > > case?  How far off is complete JDBC 4 support?
>         > >
>         >
>         > Tough to say without going through each JDBC 4 feature.  The
>         note you
>         > mention is certainly old, but there are still significant
>         JDBC4
>         > requirements that haven't been implemented (Wrapper support,
>         specific
>         > exceptions, ...).
>         >
>         > Is there anything in particular that you're interested in?
>         >
>         > Kris Jurka
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