Hi, It is very intersting for me, can I help ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Field-Elliot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [Simper] Re: Bean storage in database
> On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 11:34, James Strachan wrote: > > Cool. BTW I could maybe help with the Digester & XML stuff if you like. > > > That would be great. Should be in the few days that I get a site up to > support it (with CVS etc). As you might imagine, I have a "real job" > which obviously takes precedence. > > > One other thing to keep in the back of your mind when you're > refactoring things. Once its in CVS somewhere - hopefully the sandbox or > failing that sourceforge - I'd be quite interested in adding support for > 'real' beans. > > I think DynaBeans are perfect for queries and for when the Java object model > is dictated by the database schema. Its also very common to need to write a > web app for an existing database, where hand coding beans to represent the > database is a wasted effort. Though it would be nice to support the other > way around as well, that Java business objects are written first and Simper > gets used to persist them and that the database schema comes secondary. > > The Simper code is mostly based on DynaBeans and its pretty easy to wrap a > DynaBean around a real bean so I'm hoping that mostly Simper won't really > know if real or dyna beans are being used. To get the 'mark as dirty' > features in your SimperBean we could use BCEL or JDK1.3's dynamic proxy > to generate wrappers that detect when bean setters are called. The nice > thing about this would be we could > use Simper to persist any Java Bean, as well as DynaBeans. There's an > object-relational can of worms that this could open but hopefully we'll be > able to keep it simple. > > That does sound interesting -- wrapping existing beans (POJO's) into > Simper. Hopefully it can be done in a clever, yet simple way, rather > than bloating it up into a big O/R tool. That's the mantra I hope is > always maintained -- keep it simple yet clever. I've never worked with > dynamic proxies, that sounds interesting. > > > BTW I keep wanting to type Simpler rather than Simper. The project name > didn't start out as a typeo did it ;-) > > > The word Simper does bounce awkwardly around the brain doesn't it? But > it's correct -- Simple Persistence - Simper. > > Bryan > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
