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[blair christensen <>]

This is probably the wrong time to announce this given how much I've
mucked with the code since I last tested this *but*...

Before the great distraction of the past few weeks, I had gotten
Grouper marginally running against Oracle.  I believe ~75% of the
test suite passed.  Of course the the tests that did fail were horribly
confusing - which is *one* of the reasons why I am now gutting a
significant portion of the Hibernate code.  I suspect the Oracle
code will either work a lot better or at least be significantly
easier to debug once I have finished with this step.

In addition, as part of my initial testing with Oracle, I've made it a
little easier to test against databases other than the default HSQDLB
instance.  

For instance, to test with Oracle one would:
  * Update conf/hibernate.properties to use the proper dialect and
    connection settings
  * Change the "sql.type" property in "build.xml" to "oracle".  This
    will cause Ant to use the sql/(schema|test-data)-oracle.sql files.

To test with another database, one would just set "sql.type" as
appropriate, create appropriately named files in sql/ and then
(hopefully) either share those back to this mailing list or via
bugzilla.