--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, Roman Rokytskyy <roman@...> wrote:

>
> > Could you be so kind to give me some hint (or suggest where to search for) for both develop dialect
>
> If TopLink is open-source (I really do not know - did not track that
> product), then you can check the sources. Otherwise decompile a class
> and create similar one. In Hibernate dialects extend some base class and
> then override some methods. I would expect something similar in TopLink.
>
> > or install/configure Hibernate ?
>
> See here:
>
> https://www.hibernate.org/5.html
>
> The "Hibernate Core for Java" part explains the XML configuration only
> and the core technology, "Hibernate Annotations" and "Hibernate
> EntityManager" - the new JPA architecture.
>
> There is nothing really special about Firebird in Hibernate. You specify
> the driver class, jdbc url and dialect (it is called
> org.hibernate.dialect.FirebirdDialect )
>
> Roman
>

I'll go for Hibernate...I have no time (and, most of all, not enough java programming experience) to write a class on my own

Thanks a lot for your help