Groundbreaking favicon.ico Theory, Re: Ibatis vs Jaxor

[Brett Gorres <bg...@yahoo.com>]

Can you judge a book by its cover?
Maybe a favicon.ico tells you all you need to know about Ibatis vs Jaxor...
 
(see attached PNG or references below.)
 
My preliminary findings:
- the iBATIS icon is larger
- the iBATIS icon is more flexible (it can be used in both large and small contexts)
- the Jaxor icon is leaner (and looks to be more aerodynamic) but I'm not sure if it is also meaner. (I'm not gonna mess with that iBATIS icon!  Ouch!)
- they are both pretty cool looking.
- at that 16 x 16 resolution, Jaxor requires a closer look.  (both of you icons: what the heck are you, anyway?)
 
You may be thinking, "Not very scientific."
 
Someone pls feel free to examine the ico files more closely...  I think I'm on to something.
(What software was used to create each of them?  I am over budget now.)
 
Here is my favicon.ico theory in its simplest form:
"You can tell a lot about someone by the favicon.ico file in their root directory."
There I said it.
 
Probably could have sold this concept to Jakob Nielson, but I choose to open source it.  Anyone want to co-author that favicon book with me?  : )
 
-Brett
 
References:
http://jaxor.sourceforge.net/favicon.ico
http://www.ibatis.com/favicon.ico

Clinton Begin <cl...@gmail.com> wrote: 
It's actually a code generator, much like Torque. So perhaps even
comparing it to Hibernate would not be appropriate.

Clinton

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:32:07 -0700, Brandon Goodin

wrote:
> Jaxor still funcitons with the mindset of mapping table -> objects and
> querying the mappings. IBatis maps SQL to objects not Tables to
> Objects. Also, i am very suspect of their sql support. I'm not certain
> it is true SQL. It looks as though it may use SQL constructs yet it is
> not the actual sql that reaches your database. I may be wrong. Also,
> jaxor does not abstract it's sql from the java class. It only
> abstracts the mapping to entity objects from the java class.
> 
> That's just a quick overview of what i saw. I'd be interested to hear
> what others have to say.
> 
> Brandon
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:19:22 -0500, Jason Hall wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just reading up on Jaxor, similar to ibatis using a xml mapping
> > technique and traditional SQL queries.
> > But it provides more, like "unit of work", identity, etc. It seems
> > intrieging. What's significantly better in ibatis than Jaxor?
> >
> >
> > Thanks:)
> >
> > Jason Hall
>

Re: Groundbreaking favicon.ico Theory, Re: Ibatis vs Jaxor

[J Aaron Farr <fa...@apache.org>]

On Thu, March 17, 2005 3:54 pm, Brett Gorres said:
> Can you judge a book by its cover?
> Maybe a favicon.ico tells you all you need to know about Ibatis vs
> Jaxor...

or maybe it means that Jaxor is using Drupal?

  http://www.drupal.org/

jaaron