On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Robert Zeigler <[email protected]> wrote: > As much as I love the model, the current "hibernate way" is to code a POJO, > occasionally annotating things to make the associations, etc. clearer. And > then hibernate will build your schema for you. > It obviates a lot of the need for the modeler since a large fraction of your > model winds up being defined by convention. If you have a class with > property "foo", then, by default, you have a table with column "foo". > I'm not trying to troll for hibernate here. ;) I still much prefer Cayenne. > But having used hibernate quite a bit for the past 2.5 years (by necessity, > not by my choice ;), I'm at least somewhat conversant in how a hibernate user > might react. And the fact is that within the realm of people who have ORM > experience, many (most?) of those have hibernate experience. >
Hi Robert, The downside to annotations (or XML) is you have to *learn* it still. With Cayenne Modeler, you have a much easier time (especially at the beginning) by not having to learn framework-specific annotations, etc. I don't like digging through the manual as much these days. mrg
