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I'm involved in an effort to define a new dialect for a relational database. Thus far, I've only done minimal testing. Is there a collection or suite of acceptance tests (or conformance tests) that Hibernate provides that I can use to test with my dialect? At this point I only have a class that extends the Hibernate Dialect class. I have no changes to other Hibernate files.
If there is no formal acceptance test suite, would any one in the forum be willing to share what they did to test their dialect to ensure that it did not cause Hibernate to encounter an error or otherwise fail?
Also, could someone tell what the process is for getting a dialect accepted for inclusion in hibernate2.jar?
Thank you all in advance for any cooperation/help you can offer!
Karen Ploski

Try running the hibernate unit test suite with the dialect. If the tests pass, or at least a reasonable ammount of them (some tests only work with specific databases), submit it to our JIRA issue tracker, and it might get included in the official distribution.

Michael,

Thank you for the quick response! Just to confirm:

(1) Is the unit test suite included in the Hibernate download bundle, in the folder named test?

(2) I used Windows Explorer to search the .java files in the test folder for the string "main". Approximately 16 .java files contain "main". Is there any documentation for the test suite? If not, how would you suggest I become familar with the test suite (example: start with the .java that contain "main"). I would like to run the tests under Eclipse...does it make sense to go about the job that way?

Thank you!
Karen Ploski

The tests are in JUnit format, read up on that.