Hibernate with Custom Database

[Ra Carter]

How would one use hibernate with a custom unknown database?

I want to make my own database just for the fun of doing it. It may just write information to a file or something at first but I would like it to appear as a relational database. As I improve the implementation I don't want to change my business logic for my program, it should just use the standard Hibernate APIs.

Do I need to write a JDBC driver for hibernate? Are there any other interfaces that I need to implement? I was briefly looking this up but I am new to hibernate in general so I wasn't sure where to go. If someone could point me to the correct documentation for doing something like this I would also be grateful.

[Paul Sturrock]

A big job!

The Hibernate part is actually quite a small bit, all you will need is a dialect implementation, unless you write this custom database using the same SQL syntax as an existing one. The bigger part is you will need to write a JDBC driver implementation.