Jacob, please see inline ...
Werner On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:28:40 -0600, Jacob Tomaw wrote: > >I am choosing a persistence framework. Right now my choices are >Castor and Hibernate. I am having trouble finding good comparisons of >these two techs. I have a limited experience in Castor and none in >Hibernate and this has been driving my decision. I had set on >starting with Castor and then possibly exploring a switch to Hibernate >as an exercise. > >It has been more difficult to implement Castor than I expected. The >difficulty comes from the lack of documentation. You are absolutely right in that there's not enough documentation available for Castor in general, especially when compared with other data binding frameworks (whether XML or persistence). Having said that, as part of the 0.9.6 release (due in early January) I myself have touched a lot of things and updated/added various sections (e.g. providing additional samples, etc.) But as an open source project, we (as any other project) rely on contributions of the community. Iow, if you feel that there's a lack of information/documentation in a particular area, let me know it, provide me with some stubs, and we'll fill in the rest. Once the 0.9.6 release has been pushed out, the project will change with regards to a couple of areas. On the JDO side of things, we'll take on three to four additional committers, one inactive committer is getting active again, we are in the process of creating a PMC similar to the Apache projects, etc. Part of the work after the aforementioned release will be a special drive towards improving documentation. >My usually way of >learning something is to pickup the O'Reilly or 'in Action' book and >devour it. These resources do not exist for Castor so I have been >trying to glean the Internet for documentation. I have found the >website's documentation very lacking and a quick start at best. Is it safe to assume that you have visited the Castor forums, searched for information on the mailing list archives etc. ? If not, please consider doing so. >Most >of the other documentation I have found are quick starts more then a >full fledged user's guide. The lack has pushed me to Hibernate. Again, I cannot blame you for that. >So, I am curious. How did you all learn Castor? Are there some well >hidden gems of Castor documentation out there? There's quite a few articles on http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks, which I am sure you must have seen already. >Does anyone know if there is a book in the works? Bruce Snyder (the current JDO lead) is in the process of writing a Castor live book. Let's see what he can share with us on a release date, subjects covered, etc. >Also, Does anyone have a good reason why they use Castor and not >another tech like Hibernate? > >Thanks, >Jacob Tomaw > > > >----------------------------------------------------------- >If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > unsubscribe castor-user > ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-user
