On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:48:00 +0200, Roman Rokytskyy <roman@...>
wrote:

> Hi Mirco,
>
>> I'm requested to lead a JavaEE 6 project using JBoss AS 6 and
>> Firebird as a backend. Are the drivers feature complete or are there
>> unimplemented ones?
>> My boss want to be sure about any bump on the road, so I'm asking
>> here prior to set up a trial environment myself and any help is
>> really
>> appreciated.
>> Contributing the project is a viable option to ensure to reach the
>> project goal.
>
> Mark implemented JDBC 4.1 support (Java 7) and at the moment he is
> working on the release notes. I do not expect any additional API changes

> before release. There is one open ticket JDBC-192, which has to be
> closed before release, but that's it.

I implemented all methods to satisfy the interfaces, but most of the new
JDBC 4.1 features *will* throw SQLFeatureNotSupportedException; I however
believe that most of the methods added in JDBC 4.1 are relatively esoteric,
but for Jaybird 2.3 I will implement some of them and other optional JDBC
parts currently not supported.

I hope to have a draft version of the release notes by next week, so we
might also want to prepare a release candidate.

> Re. whether driver is feature complete... There are features in
> Firebird that are not fully supported by the driver (e.g. optimized wire

> protocol support), however they will not be part of the v2.2 release
> anyway. So the task is rather to check whether everything you need is
> there.

Mirco, could you give a bit more detail about which features you think you
will absolutely need?

Mark