Re: New Feature Idea

[Bill Dudney <bd...@apache.org>]

Hi Shanky,

iBatis maps jdbc calls into hashtables (its more sophisticated than  
that but essentially that is what is happening) the theory being that  
more than a few object models being mapped through hibernate/cayenne/ 
jdo/toplink/ojb/castor/etc/etc/etc are simply data holders and don't  
have any actual business logic in them anyway so they might as well  
be hashtables. This theory holds true fairly often but not always,  
thus the need for the O/R mapping frameworks.

Take a look at the ibatis front page they have a nifty graphic that  
shows the basics of what it does in a very concise way.

BTW: shouldn't this be on the user list instead of dev at this point?

Bill Dudney
MyFaces - myfaces.apache.org


On Mar 6, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Shashank Shanky Tiwari wrote:

> I thought the whole mission of SQLMaps (an iBatis sub-project) was  
> to map your sql query and hence the relational definition to a Java  
> object result set. Isn't that what a O/R map is essentially trying  
> to acheive ?
>
> --Shanky
>
>
> On 3/6/06, Bruce Snyder <br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/06, Shashank Shanky Tiwari <ts...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What about iBatis SQLMaps - doesn't that provide O/R mapping?
>
> iBatis is certainly an option, but it's not O/R mapping per se:
>
> http://ibatis.apache.org/
>
> Bruce
> --
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> G;6%I;\"YC;VT*"
> );'
>
> Apache Geronimo (http://geronimo.apache.org/)
>
> Castor (http://castor.org/)
>
>
>
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