I downloaded version 3.1.2 and I don't see the GenericDialect class in hibernate3.jar - what's up? Did it move somewhere else?

it were not doing any real good.

what did you use it for ?

we used it as a "last resort" fallback. We can code around it - not a big issue.

Hello;

I am trying to connect to mainframe data via a JDBC driver adapted to access VSAM files. I've gotten it to work with other non-hibernate projects. can I leave this property out of the configuration without concern? it uses *standard* SQL I only need to read(search) no updates. I already have one configuration file with 9 MS-SQL tables working. I want to add this as a second configured sessionFactory.

SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration()
.configure().buildSessionFactory();
SessionFactory viaServSession = new Configuration() .configure("validateFamis.cfg.xml").buildSessionFactory();

I tried to leave out the Dialect and got the following exception:

"Hibernate Dialect must be explicitly set for database: ViaSQL"

Hi All,

I have just tried running my applicaiton under the latest JBoss and found that the GenericDialect is no longer included in the hibernate.jar.

I have been using the GenericDialect for a connection to a legacy system through an Attunity jdbc driver. This has been working great for me.

It is a little strange to find a class being removed like this (was this depricated before now?).

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do now?

Regards,

Damian

since 3.0 we throw an exception if the dialect is either not explicit set or not identified by autodetection via the jdbc driver.

Using GenericDialect is afaik the same as using just the Dialect class directly - but it is much better if you created a specific subclass for your alternative dialect.