hibernate and Livelink (can I use other stores than JDBC?)

bkraft · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:10 am

Hello,

I am evaluating different options to have an object layer on top of opentext's livelink. While Livelink (at least our implementation) has an oracle backend, we are only (maximally) allowed to read from Oracle. To write, we are required to use the Livelink API (java API but not really object-oriented).

So the question is: is it possible to use Hibernate in such a way? What do I need to do to write an adaptor that would connect to such a system (i.e. non-jdbc).

Has anybody tried that before?

Thanks
Boris

emmanuel · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:35 am

You may implement a CustomPersister to use your specific API, but it's certainly not trivial.

bkraft · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:52 am

Is it documented which methods have to be implemented to do so? Any experience about the degree of non-trivialness involved? (Are we talking days/weeks/months?)

Thanks
Boris

hgilde · **Joined:** Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:21 pm **Posts:** 27

Some fo the Hibernate APIs indicate XML serialization support. I don't know if or how it works.