JDK 5 is still only around 15 - 20% adoption since I last checked...and there's an equal number still on JDK 1.3. I don't see it being a significant threat any time soon at least...
Cheers,
Clinton
On 8/4/06, Paul Benedict <
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I saw some JDBC 4.0 and it does not make ibatis obsolete. For instance, annotations are not inheritable but you can extend sqlmaps. Also there will always be a need for XML configuration because not everyone wants their mappings statically-linked into their code; it is impossible to change without recompiling. Furthermore, the churn for turnaround in Sun is slow because the JCP is a snail -- you guys can provide more enhancements and releases than the JDK ever could. No worries here.
Paul
Clinton Begin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hi all,
I just picked this up from InfoQ. What do you think?=====================
Blogger Patrick Lightbody noted "I could see JDBC 4.0 replacing my need for iBatis" after reading another blog post on JDBC 4.0 functionality. JDBC 4.0 includes basic O/R mapper functionality that eases the repetitive task of copying ResultSet data into objects. It does not handle inheritance or table relations however.
=====================Patrick's a good guy and a respected developer. I appreciate his opinion. Obviously, this is only useful for people running JDK 5 or possibly only JDK 6. And of course, Annotation support would be an almost brainless effort to implement for iBATIS.Your thoughts?
Clinton
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