Hibernate and bespoke none relational DB ?

[Webby]

Hi there,

I'm working on an existing system which we have added a Java front end to. The backend is C/C++ with
a Corba interface. At the moment we make corba calls to retrieve and store all the data for the java
front end application. The backend stores the data in a bespoke DB which is a flat file system with
various bells and whistles (no SQL). Is Hibernate something I could use to help with persistence
mechanism or does the fact that we have no SQL mean that is not possibe ?

Any advice, links to solutions and so on would be greatfully received.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Adam Maass]

Hi there,

I'm working on an existing system which we have added a Java front end to. The backend is C/C++ with
a Corba interface. At the moment we make corba calls to retrieve and store all the data for the java
front end application. The backend stores the data in a bespoke DB which is a flat file system with
various bells and whistles (no SQL). Is Hibernate something I could use to help with persistence
mechanism or does the fact that we have no SQL mean that is not possibe ?

Hibernate wants to make use of JDBC to connect to the data store. If you
wanted to implement a JDBC
interface to the database, you could make use of Hibernate. (That's a lot of
work.)

Or you could re-write the C/C++ backend to use a more traditional database,
and then use JDBC to connect to it also.

Or keeping the CORBA might be the best bet of all.

-- Adam Maass