Category: Tools & Products releases

NHibernate 1.0.4 bugfix version was released at 24 january 2007.

NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. Optionally, you can describe your mapping metadata with attributes in your source code.

All Firebird versions supported by the FirebirdSql.Firebird drivers (version 1.6 and 1.7) are supported, including Firebird Embedded.

There is also NHibernate 1.2.0.Beta3 version available for download, which supports latest Firebird .NET provider version 2.0. This version includes support for using stored procedures with entities mapped by NHibernate, support for .NET 2.0 generic and nullable types, and many other improvements and features ported from Hibernate 3.x.

osFinancials is an open source accounting software package, started in august 2006 and is released under the GPL. It was forked from the open sources of TurboCASH. The developers have implemented the Firebird (database server) in the software for (external-) data storage and enhancing the multi-user capabilities.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

quote from phpMyFAQ blog

Some months ago I ported our database abstraction layer to Oracle and Interbase/Firebird. I enabled both classes today for the upcoming beta release.

Lucene.Net 2.0 final (build 3) was released on 27 December 2006.

New release with Firebird/Interbase bugs fixed

SQLObject Version 0.7.3 release is now available.

SQLObject is a popular python ORM for providing an object interface to your database, with tables as classes, rows as instances, and columns as attributes.

SQLObject includes a Python-object-based query language that makes SQL more abstract, and provides substantial database independence for applications.

Unsatisfied with the available libraries for object Pascal to connect to various databases with a standard API, I created “Pascal Data Objects” which is loosely patterned after PHP Data Objects, and originally supported MySQL 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 using native client libraries. I recently moved the project to Sourceforge ( pdo.sourceforge.net ) and added support for Firebird 1.5 and 2.0.

PDO is licensed LGPL as it contains some code from Zeoslib, which is LGPL. One particularly nice thing about my implementation of the Firebird drivers is that I built in “prefetch” support. By default, the driver prefetches the entire result set and stores it internally so that functions that depend on knowing how big a result set is before accessing the data can be supported. There is also some data abstraction functions.

The source code is packaged at Sourceforge and works on Delphi and Free Pascal Compiler, tested and used in both Windows and FreeBSD programs. If you decide that this is newsworthy, then I’ll leave the wording up to you.

Regards,
John (J.R.Marino — firebirdnews @ marino.st)