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Rahul Thakur wrote:
2) Database
I am not hard and fast on any particular JPA provider. If Toplink cuts
it, we should go with it. I have been toying around with OpenJPA, but I
haven't used Toplink to comment on how both compare. OpenJPA is
comprehensively documented and has a good support available on mailing
lists. Having said that, JPA providers would ultimately be swap'able
under the hood.
Also, I think we should stick with JPA annotations on model entities
instead of using Modello. I hope writing the data access code from
scratch implies the current ContinuumStore will be refactored into
something which is less verbose than what we have currently, and so
would the Continuum interface.
