Hello, all:

I am attempting to ascertain whether or not I can use Hibernate to map my POJOs to an IDMS (mainframe) database. I have the JDBC driver for IDMS, but the SQL you use is a little bit different than ANSI (not by a lot, but enough!).

Will I have to write a new dialect class to do this? Or is there some other way?

Thanks for all of your sage advice...

Patrick

the dialect controls how sql gets generated - so yes, that is the way ,)

(but you got a big resource of inspiration in all the existing dialects)

Thanks for the info! Okay, so now that I know I need to write a new dialect, I downloaded the source code for Hibernate 3. When I try to compile, I get the following error:

"HqlSqlWalker.java": package org.hibernate.hql.antlr does not exist at line 15, column 32

This happens often because it is in the import statements. When I look at the source, there is no 'org.hiberate.htl.antlr package'.

Did I not download everything?

Patrick

you didnt run the build which generates the ANTLR related classes.