best practice to access an external data base with JPA from Bamboo plugin

[Alied Perez]

Hi folks:

I am developing a Bamboo plugin (but I guess this applies to any Atlassian product) where I need to access a data base totally unrelated to that of Bamboo. I plan to use JPA if possible.

Which is the recommended and "cleanest" way to do it?

I mean, should I use Spring (since I see Atlassian already uses it)?

How can I configure my persistense/Spring/? options?

Thanks in advance

Alied

[Alied Perez · Accepted solution]

As it turns out, Bamboo 5.3 is using an ancient Spring version (2.0.7), so, for now I'm out of luck. I'm gonna have to go JDBC in 2014.

[Alied Perez]

I have found this answer[1], in case someone gets here before. Tomorrow will try and see, and will post my results.

[1]https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/90026/how-to-access-external-database-through-confluence-plugin?page=1#90030

[Alied Perez]

Some more info:

As I have seen, Bamboo 5.3 uses Spring 2.0.7!!! and Hibernate 2.1.8!!!

I don't even think those even support JPA. I will have to do some work on my own to get things done. I don't want to do jdbc; it's 2014 already.