![]() The big difference is our community-driven development model. ![]() Understanding of what functionality they really need. By having a lot of users, we have gained an excellent Hibernate is an open source solution that is as capable, usually more capable than our commercial competitors.īy being free, we have attracted a huge number of users. JPT: How would you compare Hibernate to TopLink or one of the JDO implementations? This is just great if you are trying to build I guess that's the result of intersecting entreprenuerial American business culture with the semi-structuredĪpproach to development that you find in the open source community. I have never seen such a dynamic company cultureīefore. More importantly, it's just a great place to work. That sense, JBoss is virtually the only place on earth where I am able to make a living doing the things I just Other open source companies out there are trying to make money either fromĭual licensing, or by selling packaged software or services for software that they did not actually write. So, why JBoss? Well, JBoss is almost unique in that the company actually pays for the development of the open Futher, you need to be able to get out in the field and speak to people at conferences and otherĮvents, without that being your annual leave! I'm thinking about things like 24/7 supportĪnd training courses. Your users, some of the things that they expect from commercial software. Second, you need to be able to provide to First, you need to be able toĬoncentrate, and have the open source project as your first priority. But at some point, you want to really competeįull tilt with the guys selling licenses. One of the things that makes the open source model so interesting. That is not toĭiminish the importance of volunteerism in open source indeed, it is a fundamental aspect of open source, and There is a limit to how far a project can scale, and to how well itĬan compete with commercial alternatives, when you have only volunteers working on the project. Users we have to support, in your spare time. It's simply not possible to run a project with the kind of scope that Hibernate has, or with the sheer number of ![]() JPT: Given the current buzz around Hibernate, what made you decide to join JBoss? I ended up spending more time thinkingĪbout persistence than I spent thinking about the user's problem. My inability to apply object modeling techniques to the business problem. With an Australian company called Cirrus Technologies and was very frustrated by my lack of productivity, and by Hibernate was designed as a fix for the well known problems of Entity Beans. JPT: What brought you to build Hibernate. I've just finished writing a bookĬalled "Hibernate in Action" with Christian Bauer. ![]() Ideas about persistence into the Java standards, via the JCP process. I'm also working hard to bring some of our Recently joined JBoss Inc, so that I could concentrate fulltime on developing Hibernate and building aīusiness around support, training and consulting services. I am the founder of the Hibernate project, an open source object/relational mapping solution for Java. JPT: Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? This month we got to interview Gavin King, founder of the Hibernate open source object/relational The classic and most comprehensive book on tuning Java ![]() We can provide training courses to handle all your Java performance needs Get rid of your performance problems and memory leaks!ĬOURSES AVAILABLE NOW. The Interview: Gavin King, Hibernate JProfiler Training online: Concurrency, Threading, GC, Advanced Java and more. JProfiler: Get rid of your performance problems and memory leaks! Our valued sponsors who help make this site possible The Interview: Gavin King, Hibernate Java Performance Tuning ![]()
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