This one time, at band camp, Verhagen, Tjeerd said: VT>Hello Bruce, VT> VT> VT>SB> I tested CocoBase late last Summer and its feature list didn't even VT>SB> match that of Castor. If you don't want to use Castor, I would VT>SB> suggest looking at OJB [http://objectbridge.sf.net/] before ever VT>SB> even considering CocoBase. VT> VT>It's not that I don't whant to use Castor. My problem lay in the VT>documentation. You have to dig through the source code to retrieve the VT>functionality of Castor JDO. Even the API documentation is a subset of VT>all the classes / packages. VT> VT>Could you give a brief description of those feathures? Or point me to a VT>location where they are descripted. This would help me in my tour through VT>the o/r mapping jungle. I've red several articles JavaWorld, OnJava, etc. VT>and many times serveral products / projects are enumerated, like VT>CocoBase, TopLink, Castor JDO, OpenFusion and others, without pointing VT>at the pros / cons of each.
Unfortunately, I cannot provide a detailed breakdown. The details were compiled into a research paper for a past employer. I do have a growing list of object-relational mapping tools at one of my web sites [http://www.bsnyder.org/] but beyond that, there are no side-by-side comparisons I can offer. What I can tell you is that out of all the OR mapping tools available during the period of June/July of 2001, I found that four were really fairly mature and only three of those were truly usable in an enterprise. Listed in order, they were TOPLink, Castor and OJB. After that was CocoBase and all the other stuff that has come about in the last nine months in response to the Sun JDO spec. TOPLink is ***extremely*** expensive and out of the question for most projects. OJB has matured a good amount over the last nine months and does have a nice design. Castor, I believe, is poised for big changes to begin very soon. Also, Castor is the oldest Open Source OR mapping tool. It was started long before Sun envisioned the JDO spec. Beyond that, I'm a committer for Castor, so I'm biased ;-) Bruce -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","<0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F9E<G)E=\$\!F<FEI+F-O;0\`\`");' ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-dev
