Hello.

Some time ago I've been evaluating Alfresco - an opensource CMS. Its
stack is this: MySQL -> Hibernate -> SpringFramework -> tomcat -> Web
interface.

Since all other systems in our company use Firebird as a database back-
end I've decided to move Alfresco to Firebird.

Here are the steps:
- install FB2.0RC SS (Win32)
- add JayBird jar to appropriate location
- change connection string params in Alfresco xml configuration files
- change Hibernate SQL dialect to FirebirdDialect in its properties
files

That's all. Hibernate creates all the required tables, etc.

Time required is about 30 min on a clean database (without porting
existing records).

FB1.x cannot be used because of index size limits - it cannot handle
char-enocded GUIDs (a pair of them in one index) if the database is
UTF8.

A for performance, I cannot say for sure, because we've just evaluated
a product without heavy load. But at the first glance FB is slightly
faster.

Maxim.