Blogging Roller

On Tuesday, I also talked to (JDO spec lead) Craig Russell, who's interested in helping to create a JDO backend (using JPOX) for Roller to replace Hibernate. Later, I talked to (Struts in Action author) Ted Husted, who's interested in doing the same thing with iBatis. And even later, at dinner, Ted Leung suggested the idea of a Roller persistence bake-off. We'd challenge the JDO, iBatis and even EJB3 proponents to create competing implementations of the Roller backend and then we'd choose the best one based on performance, generated SQL, developer ease-of-use and whatever other factors. The prize? An iPod? No, the prize would be the honor of being the official persistence framework of Roller