Re: JDBC 4 support

So what functionality of JDBC4 do you need/want for hibernate ?

Dave

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Steve Ebersole <steve(at)hibernate(dot)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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