On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Reinhard Pötz wrote:
From: Jeremy Quinn
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:04 AM, Reinhard Pötz wrote:
IMO no. I would use Object/Relational mapping tools like OJB http://db.apache.org/ojb/ or Hibernate (http://hibernate.bluemars.net).
Is there a wiki somewhere on this type of thing?
http://wiki.cocoondev.org/ Wiki.jsp?page=XMLFormJXFormHibernateAndFlowscr ipt and here you find a component providing a Hibernate session: http://cvs.werken.com/viewcvs.cgi/plexus-components/hibernate /src/java/org/apache/plexus/hibernate/ DefaultHibernateService.java?cvsro ot=plexus
Forgive me if I have not entirely understood the usage patterns of the classes above.
IIUC this component provides a Hibernate Session. At the current FOM implementation you have to take care that you open and close these sessions correctly.
The problem arises when you wish to use a (brilliant) feature of Hibernate called 'lazy-initialisation', whereby access to the DB is only made when you actually ask for Bean Properties.
This is particularly useful when you have large 'graphs' of related Beans, for instance child/parent relationships, whereby loading one Bean may result in the whole database loading!!
If you have closed your Hibernate Session in your Flowscript, your display layer can throw LazyInitialisationExceptions, because the connection is no longer available.
Not closing the Session after you have sent the Response, is considered bad practise, so the Servlet Filter is a handy solution.
However, with the generous assistance of Ugo Cei, I am successfully using the technique highlighted in the first sample here [1] for managing Hibernate Sessions in my FlowApp.
The basic issue is that you want to avoid maintaining an open Hibernate Session whilst the user is interacting with a form (etc.). The Session should to be opened and closed during each Request (and any Transient Beans refreshed before re-use). The above technique uses a Servlet Filter to manage this, with a static method to retrieve a Session in your flowscript at the beginning of each Request that needs it.
[1] http://hibernate.bluemars.net/43.html
Sounds cool and I remember that I've already heard from it but haven't found the time to try it myself.
I am using it ATM on a client project and it is a dream!
<dream-mode> I would like to use this Avalon component mentioned above and the Flow interpreter takes care of releasing (and providing) stateful components within my scripts. So I would have to lookup the Hibernate Session at the beginning(2) and until I finally release(8) it I don't have to take care for it.
1 function xxx() { 2 var hibS = cocoon.getComponent( "hibernateSession" ); 3 var custBean = hibS.blablabla // get your beans with hibernate 4 sendPageAndWait( "bla", {customer : custBean} ); 5 // do something (updates, reads, whatever) 6 var someDifferentBean = hibS.blalbalba 7 sendPageAndWait( "bla", {diff : someDifferentBean } ); 8 sendPageAndRelease( "thankYou", {} ); 9 }
This would be IMO a very elegant way and IIU the recent discussion correctly possible from a technical point of view. Maybe Chris can comment on this :-)
Thoughts?
This is a reality! Wake up and smell the toast ;)
I just do not use the Component Manager, because I cannot manage the Hibernate Session entirely from the FlowScript layer as explained above. I have a static method that gives me a fresh Session. I get s Session at the beginning of Function, or directly after a sendPageAndWait().
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HTH
regards Jeremy
