InfoWorld on FireStar v Red Hat patent litigation

[P]art of being a grown-up software company is that every loser and their dog will sue you.

There is a lawsuit against Red Hat for patent infringement in JBoss' Hibernate 3.0. The patent in question [6,101,502] is titled "Object model mapping and runtime engine for employing relational database with object oriented software."

The first claim states:

A method for interfacing an object oriented software application with a relational database, comprising the steps of:

selecting an object model;

generating a map of at least some relationships between schema in the database and the selected object model;

employing the map to create at least one interface object associated with an object corresponding to a class associated with the object oriented software application; and

utilizing a runtime engine which invokes said at least one interface object with the object oriented application to access data from the relational database.