Data Integration: Guidance

["Ruffin, John" <jr...@achfood.com>]

This morning I created a DAO layer for the mySQL DB created from the
Open_Social.sql
<http://chrisschalk.com/shindig_docs/io/shindig-io.html#lab3>  script on
Chris Schalk's website (in a separate project outside of the Shindig
source).  Standard [JAVA] Spring/Hibernate stuff with DAOManagers and
JUNIT tests for all the methods. 

After a few hours of trial-&-error, and after reading the 26 messages
here (Working on Integration Guide...)
<http://shindig-dev.markmail.org/search/?q=DAO#query:DAO+page:1+mid:2jis
ibeusp4btlmm+state:results>  : I'm unclear on how to configure Shindig
source to use the DAOMangers (services).

Here is where I ran into "Guice configuration errors":

*	I installed the DAO layer (jar) into my local maven repository.
*	Added it as a dependency into Shindig
*	DID NOT edit SocialApiGuiceModule (i.e. bindings still point to
SQLPeopleService, SQLDataService, SQLActivitiesService .class)
*	Inside the above SQL*Service classes is where I want to call the
services of the DAOMangers in lieu of the JDBC code

I'm not clear on how to inject the SQL*Service classes with DAOManagers.
Looks like I might need to create this DAOLayer as a separate maven
module inside Shindig - that way I can let Spring manage the
transactions and such???  I though it would be a good idea to ping the
group before going down this path.

I'd also like to try the approach mentioned in the email thread as to
dropping the shindig.jar into an existing web app and wire it up to an
existing DAO layer.  

Any guidance on either of these two scenarios (Data layer added to
Shindig -or- Shindig dropped into existing web app)?  Or: should I be
toying with a RESTFul approach?  Just trying to get my hands dirty.

Thanks,

John Ruffin
 
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