For now, I'd be much happier to first get a bunch of adapters
implemented then worry about how to organize 'em ;-)
- James
David Primmer wrote:
Lets hope there will be lots of adapters and people will have some
sort of naming system to follow so that their new adapter can fit into
a product space with other adpaters. I won't be a stickler on the
package names. But what if we had some other method of applying this
metadata? I'm thinking more of a directory that would list these
adapters rather than requiring someone hunt through source code. High
level categories for what you want to do and then tag the specific
adapaters with implementation details. We will have several database
adapters that are all common in that they do some sql at some point.
But we should also be able to add more metadata. Think about how
firefox or eclipse plugin sites work.
davep
On Feb 12, 2008 10:22 AM, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Let's assume we end up with several db-to-atom adapters based on several
mapping layers, say raw jdbc, ibatis, and hibernate. What should the
names of the various adapters be? At a high enough level, they all do
the same thing: adapt data from a database. In theory, each could exist
within a single package, but they certainly need to have
implementation-specific class names.
- James
David Primmer wrote:
I have an objection to this. It focuses too much on implementation details.
I'd prefer to go the other way towards a name that describes what it does,
not how it does it. You're not adapting iBatis, you're adapting data from a
database. There must be another way to say this. The package namespace seems
to make sense but not the class name.
davep
On Feb 12, 2008 5:11 AM, David Calavera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've seen JdbcCollectionAdapter depends on IBatis and I think the name is
ambiguous when I read "Jdbc" I think on a native jdbc connection to the
database without orms. I think we should rename this class to
IBatisCollectionAdapter and move it to some other package like "
org.apache.abdera.protocol.server.adapters.orm.ibatis".
Unless you have no problem, I'm going to create the jira issue and submit
a
patch.
Btw, I'm thinking on create an HibernateCollectionAdapter XD.
Cheers
