Thread: The Ingres CAFE Project

Many engineers have considered just that question and a few of them began
an op€!fl source project to address the issue. Engineering students from Carleton University, the Talent First Network, and Googie Summer of Code, a:10ng with senior engineers at Ingres Corporation, formed a .team to solve the problem. The result is the Ingres Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse (CAFE), which, in August 2008, won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for Best Application Development Tool.



The CAFE team, lead by Samrat Dhillon of Carleton University and Andrew Ross of Ingres, analysed developer requirements to determine the types of components needed by typical Java development teams. The team then researched the Eclipse plug-ins available for each category to determine an optimum platform. Based on this careful research, the team then selected leading components in each category:

• Apache Tomcat is the world's leading open source application server. Apache Tomcat makes it easy to test your Java applications directly from the Eclipse framework. And Tomcat can be used with Ingres CAFE in your production environment.



• Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object! relational persistence and query service that enables development of persistent classes, including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition and collections. Additionally, this service allows you to express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL), as well as in native SQL, or with an objectoriented Criteria and Example API.